# Crumbs - Keep your data safe & block cookies

> Crumbs protects your privacy and ensures no one can profile you as an individual. Crumbs Email Relay keeps your email address safe.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `crumbs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Crumbs
- **Category:** privacy-security,tabs
- **Daily users:** 169
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (11 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.11.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-04
- **First published:** 2020-11-12
- **Size:** 4.08 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/crumbs/)
- **Website:** [https://crumbs.org/get-started/](https://crumbs.org/get-started/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/crumbs/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/crumbs/privacy/)

## Description

Crumbs is a free Chrome extension designed to protect your online privacy effortlessly. It blocks tracking cookies, proxy advertising requests, and strips tracking parameters from URLs to prevent profiling and tracking. With Crumbs Email Relay, your real email is protected by using aliases, preventing cross-site tracking, spam, and data breaches. The extension also manages cookie consent pop-ups automatically, enabling a smoother browsing experience.

Crumbs empowers users with transparent, visualized control over their data and privacy. It supports a fair and sustainable web by giving users control of their online identity, allowing anonymous sharing of interests without compromising personal data. With tools like Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals, Crumbs helps foster a user-friendly, privacy-centric web environment for all users.

## Rankings

- #8,957 — Overall
- #23 — safe
- #25 — keep
- #39 — data
- #40 — sustainable
- #53 — x data

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `history`
- `geolocation`
- `proxy`
- `cookies`
- `alarms`
- `menus`
- `contextMenus`
- `icons`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- `<all_urls>`
- `*.crumbs.org`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension website URL may be invalid

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