Privacy Tweaks

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Privacy Tweaks - Enhance Your Online Privacy | Chrome Extension

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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Extension stats

By: loora

Users: 6,000+

Rating: 3.73

(11)

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

Creation date: 2018-10-17

Permissions:

proxy
storage
privacy
notifications
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 2.88M

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

URLs: Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 13,026 ▲ 18

Other rankings

#412 in Tools ▲ 6 #15 in privacy keyword 53 ▲ 1 #261 in toolbar keyword 37 ▲ 5

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Privacy Tweaks (v0.1.3)

60 4.25

(4)

Privacy Tweaks (v0.1.6)

494 5.00

(1)

User reviews

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 and effectively blocks trackers
Positive user satisfaction ratings
Good performance noted by various users

Cons

Takes control of proxy settings, causing issues with VPN extensions
Whitelist feature is broken, rendering the extension less useful

Most mentioned

Positive feedback on effectiveness
Issues with proxy control
Problems with whitelist functionality

User 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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Extension safety

Risk impact

Privacy Tweaks 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 analysis details

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