Privacy Tweaks

Improve your online privacy with few tweaks via toolbar popup!

What is Privacy Tweaks?

Privacy Tweaks is a versatile Chrome extension designed to enhance user privacy while browsing. It uses ten robust privacy-improving measures - including ad blocking, fingerprint protection, IP leakage prevention, browser timezone and geolocation changing, and custom proxy setting. Each tweak is user controllable, promoting optimised customisation according to individual needs. Developed in collaboration with Yubi, it assures excellent performance across various browser versions.

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By: loora

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Users: 5,000+

Rating: 3.73 (11)

Version: 0.1.6 (Last updated: 2024-02-19)

Creation date: 2018-10-17

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

proxy
storage
privacy
notifications
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 2.88M

Email: lo*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 14274 ▼ 182

Other rankings

#226 in Tools ▲ 5 #18 in privacy keyword 55 ▲ 1 #175 in toolbar keyword 38 ▲ 4

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Privacy Tweaks (v0.1.6)

5.00 (1) 575

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Summary

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Privacy Tweaks is an extension that helps you improve your privacy while browsing by using ten different techniques.

Simply open toolbar popup UI and mark a desired tweak. Please note that, only few tweaks are selected by default. Also, please keep in mind that, depending on your browser version and platform, this add-on might behave differently. There are few settings (related to timezone, geolocation and proxy) available in toolbar popup to adjust.

Currently there are 10 tweaks available for this add-on:

Block most common ads.
Block canvas fingerprint.
Block font fingerprint.
Block webgl fingerprint.
Block audiocontext fingerprint.
Block webrtc IP leakage.
Change browser timezone.
Change browser geolocation.
Set custom socks5 proxy.
Block most common trackers.

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works as expected
Blocks the majority of trackers
Highly rated

Cons

Takes over control of proxy function
Cannot be used with vpn extensions
Issues with whitelist feature

Most mentioned

Control of proxy function
Whitelist feature
Blocks trackers

Recent reviews

Отлично!

Сергей Горбачев, 2023-08-10

Good, but takes over control of proxy function, making it impossible to use with vpn extensions. Should had an option to disable proxy control.

BD AV, 2023-08-08

https://browserleaks.com/canvas でテストしたけど、インストール前と Signature に変化はありません。

志乃睦月, 2023-04-24

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Safety

Risk impact

Privacy Tweaks is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Privacy Tweaks if you trust the publisher.