# 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.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/about-privacy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/about-privacy)

## Overview

- **ID:** `about-privacy`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Harshit Sohaney
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 10
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2024-09-22
- **First published:** 2024-09-20
- **Size:** 1.24 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/about-privacy/)

## Description

<strong>
    Stay Informed About the Pages You Visit, and How They Handle Your Data!
</strong>
About:privacy analyzes <code>.well-known</code> resources like <em>robots.txt</em> and <em>gpc.json</em> to determine whether a website protects your data from AI training and respects your privacy preferences.

<strong>
    Features
</strong>
<ul>    <li>Get a quick overview of whether AI web crawlers are blocked or allowed on a website.</li>    <li>Find out if a website respects your privacy requests via GPC (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8f1fe36a03e72dcbbc334b973d98da7764ebb8cab317fd5a275b5847d097dc0c/https%3A//support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-privacy-control" rel="nofollow">Global Privacy Control</a>).</li>    <li>Read through the website's <em>robots.txt</em> file.</li></ul>
<strong>
    Future Work
</strong>
<ul>    <li>Extend the list of crawlers and allow users to input custom ones.</li>    <li>Add support for <em>ads.txt</em> in a more human-readable form.</li>    <li>Provide more privacy information from additional resources to enhance users' browsing experiences.</li></ul>
<strong>
    If You'd Like to Contribute
</strong>
We welcome new contributions to the extension. To contribute, make a pull request (PR) to 
<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/51104bcb9a399767061dfb9c5a5f25d993780856eebee3ae6f91639157df444b/https%3A//github.com/HarshitSohaney/about-privacy-extension" rel="nofollow">
    https://github.com/HarshitSohaney/about-privacy-extension
</a>.

## Rankings

- #33,477 — Overall
- #55 — data privacy
- #62 — privacy
- #192 — scraping

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `http://*/`
- `https://*/`
- `privacy`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/about-privacy)