# GAFAM Firewall

> GAFAM = Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple & Microsoft; the tech oligopolies. Get more control on your Digital Life while using GAFAM sites and CDNs.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `gafam-firewall`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Free Software Movement of India
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security,other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.6
- **Last updated:** 2020-07-08
- **First published:** 2020-01-19
- **Size:** 1.06 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gafam-firewall/)
- **Website:** [https://www.fsmi.in](https://www.fsmi.in/)

## Description

GAFAM Firewall is a Firefox add-on that allows users to block GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple & Microsoft) CDNs and highlight or hide GAFAM links. It provides privacy and Free Software alternatives, along with a history of data leaks. Web developers can test their sites and analyze dependencies on these CDNs, while free software and privacy activists can expose the dominance of tech oligopolies on the web.

## Rankings

- #71,537 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `dns`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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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