Tools to help protect your privacy online including tools to help stop sites from tracking your movements.
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Adblock Plus
in 13 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFirefox addon that eliminates banner advertisements.
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Collusion
in 11 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCollusion is a Firefox addon that provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior as you surf the web.
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Firefox
in 345 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFirefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
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GoogleSharing
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Firefox Addon for the GoogleSharing system. GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
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Hotspot Shield
in 10 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. It acts as a firewall to protect your privacy on unsecured networks.
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HTTPS Everywhere
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS. -
Mailinator
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHow do I create an account at Mailinator? It's simple, you just send email to it. Temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. First, you give out the mailinator email address you created, and then you check it. It's that simple.
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Multifox
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMultifox is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different user names, simultaneously.
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Orbot: Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOrbot is an application that allows mobile phone users to access the web, instant messaging and email without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider. Orbot brings the features and functionality of Tor (read more below) to the Android mobile operating system.
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Orweb: Proxy+Privacy Browser
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBased on the open-source Shadow browser from the University of Cambridge, Orweb works hand in hand with Orbot to provide web access that is able to circumvent web filters and firewalls, while also improving a users ability to remain anonymous online. Orweb also enables whitelist control of cookies, keeps no local history, disables Flash, and requires only Internet permissions, keeping you safe from malicious content. Beyond Tor, Orweb also supports any HTTP proxy server.
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Priv3
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Priv3 Firefox extension lets you remain logged in to the social networking sites you use and still browse the web, knowing that those third-party sites only learn where you go on the web when you want them to.
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TACO
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxIndicates who is tracking your web browsing, and provides opt-out of targeted ads
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Tor
in 30 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree software for anonymous Internet communication.
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Tor Browser Bundle
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser, and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundle additionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor. If you would prefer to use your existing web browser, install Tor permanently, or if you don't use Windows, see the other ways to download Tor.
