about:privacy Firefox

about:privacy

about:privacy helps you understand how websites handle your privacy. It shows if a website respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) flag and blocks requests from common AI web crawlers, preventing them from scraping content from your webpages.

Features & Capabilities

Stay Informed About the Pages You Visit, and How They Handle Your Data! About:privacy analyzes .well-known resources like robots.txt and gpc.json to determine whether a website protects your data from AI training and respects your privacy preferences. Features
  • Get a quick overview of whether AI web crawlers are blocked or allowed on a website.
  • Find out if a website respects your privacy requests via GPC (Global Privacy Control).
  • Read through the website's robots.txt file.
Future Work
  • Extend the list of crawlers and allow users to input custom ones.
  • Add support for ads.txt in a more human-readable form.
  • Provide more privacy information from additional resources to enhance users' browsing experiences.
If You'd Like to Contribute We welcome new contributions to the extension. To contribute, make a pull request (PR) to https://github.com/HarshitSohaney/about-privacy-extension .

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
Harshit Sohaney
Daily users:
10
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Version:
1.2 Last updated: 2024-09-22
Version code:
5813206
Creation date:
2024-09-20
Risk:
High risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
Content scripts matches:
  • <all_urls>
Size:
1.24MB
Email:
ha*****@gmail.com
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-19
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Harshit Sohaney
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/about-privacy/
Email:
ha*****@gmail.com

User Reviews

This extension is a delight to use. The clean, intuitive interface makes it effortless to navigate, and the aesthetic design is visually appealing.
by Fi*****, 2024-09-23
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Is about:privacy Safe?

Risk impact
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about:privacy requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
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about:privacy has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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