uBlock Origin and Disconnect are both available for Firefox as well as Chrome, for example, and both work in the same way: With one click on the browser toolbar you can see which adverts and trackers are being blocked. It's fantastic having all of these features built right into Firefox, and it may be where Apple got some of its inspiration from for Safari, but plenty of third-party extensions are also available if you want to go even further. Enhanced Tracking Protection can be turned off for sites that you particularly trust, as well. Three different modes of operation are available-Standard, Strict, and Custom-and it's possible to tailor the level of blocking for specific sites too. If you open up Preferences then Privacy & Security from the Firefox menu, you can choose how these measures (called Enhanced Tracking Protection) are applied. To open a report on how these various measures are working over time, open the main Firefox menu and choose Privacy Protections. Firefox will intelligently allow some plug-ins to run if blocking them would seriously compromise the functionality of the site-it's then your choice to continue using the site or find an alternative. It blocks more than 2,000 web trackers by default, for example, and warns you if your details are included in a data breach as part of its Firefox Monitor and Firefox Lockwise tools.Ĭlick the little purple shield icon to the left of the address bar on any site to see what Firefox has blocked, including advertising trackers, social media plug-ins, attempts to fingerprint your device, and more. Screenshot: David Nield via Firefoxįirefox already packs plenty of user privacy and anti-tracking technology into its interface, so you don't need to do too much in the way of tweaking to get it up to par with the improvements that Apple just announced for Safari.
The next page shows you the permissions the add-on has and lets you set when and how the utility can read your browsing data- on all sites (everywhere you go, without question), on specific sites (only on sites you specifically list), or on click (so you'll be asked for permission whenever access is required).įirefox comes with a host of privacy protections built in. Policing extension permissions isn't quite as easy in Chrome as it sounds like it will be in the next Safari upgrade, but you do have options: Choose More Tools then Extensions from the Chrome menu, then click Details next to any extension. As an added bonus, all of this tracking and blocking should mean a faster browsing experience too. Individual trackers and sites as a whole can be granted permission to operate outside of the restrictions put in place by uBlock Origin and Disconnect, which can be used for sites with responsible advertising that you want to support. A similar tool for Chrome that you can try is Disconnect-again, a single click blocks out tracking technologies, unwanted advertising, and social plug-ins (used by the likes of Facebook to see what you're up to when you're out and about across the web). As well as stopping tracking across multiple sites, uBlock Origin also suppresses aggressive ads and protects against sites embedded with malware.
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