MouseVader Firefox

MouseVader

A privacy tool that mislead trackers by creating noise in the collected user behavioral data via fake random mouse movement events in the background so it doesn't impact user experience

Features & Capabilities

Many companies including Facebook and Google do track their users behavior on their own websites or on the websites of other companies or people using their services. This simply works by tracking the user behavior as in interest in different website areas via tracking the user's mouse pointer when it hovers on elements of the rendered HTML page. This way, based on your behavior, you can be classified into cluster groups for easier targeting of ad campaigns. You can clearly see this ongoing tracking by simply observing the network tab on your browser when you merely hover on any element of the page.

The purpose of this extension is to subvert and circumvent this tracking tactic by creating fake random mouse events while you are staying on any web page to simulate actual user behavior but in a totally random way. So your actual behavioral data would be diluted purposefully with random and irrelevant data which, with time, would make it pretty difficult for tracking services to build a profile of you.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
Fady Anwar
Daily users:
35 3
Rating:
4.00
(2)
Version:
1.2 Last updated: 2022-07-30
Version code:
5438169
Creation date:
2022-07-16
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
Content scripts matches:
  • <all_urls>
Size:
77.90KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-17
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Fady Anwar
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mousevader/
Website:
https://github.com/fadyanwar/MouseVader

User Reviews

by 敬念*****, 2025-04-16

by 远离*****, 2025-03-11

I suppose it works and it's a neat little addon, but there are problems that are quite annoying. 1. When watching YouTube videos in fullscreen, bottom right corner with the channel name gets focused for a split-second over any video, with a fixed interval. 2. Hovering over items for preview on Steam Workshop for example causes previews to disappear until you re-engage with them with your mouse manually (hover away and then on again) with the same timed interval as with YouTube. I understand those are limitations of a kind, but I believe potential users should be aware of the stuff I described, and who knows how many potential issues MouseVader could cause on all sorts of websites (also a 3-star is more likely to bring attention to this, no hate here)
by Ha*****, 2025-01-31
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Is MouseVader Safe?

Risk impact
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MouseVader requires a few sensitive permissions. 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
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

MouseVader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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