# Ping Blocker

> Prevents sites from tracking you by blocking the PING request!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ping-blocker-addon](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ping-blocker-addon)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ping-blocker-addon`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Leonardo
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security,appearance
- **Daily users:** 19
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-10
- **First published:** 2020-11-15
- **Size:** 41 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ping-blocker-addon/)
- **Website:** [https://mybrowseraddon.com/ping-blocker.html](https://mybrowseraddon.com/ping-blocker.html)

## Description

Ping Blocker is a Firefox add-on that helps you prevent websites from tracking you by blocking ping requests. It blocks ping requests generated via various methods on websites, including the navigator.sendBeacon() API, anchor elements with the 'ping' attribute, and <meta> tags with 'report-to' URLs. The add-on provides options to customize the type of ping requests to block and allows whitelisting of specific domains.

## Rankings

- #24,900 — Overall
- #107 — ad-blocking
- #204 — prevent

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `declarativeNetRequest`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ping-blocker-addon)