# Privacy Please

> Automatically redirects from popular websites to privacy-respecting frontend alternatives like Invidious, Nitter, and Libreddit.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacy-please](https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacy-please)

## Overview

- **ID:** `privacy-please`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sam Bent
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 99
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 4.76 / 5 (17 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-03-17
- **First published:** 2025-03-15
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-please/)
- **Website:** [https://youtube.com/@sam\_bent](https://youtube.com/@sam_bent)

## Description

**Privacy Please Extension** is a lightweight, open-source browser tool designed to enhance your online privacy by automatically redirecting mainstream websites to privacy-respecting frontends. It supports popular platforms such as YouTube, Twitter/X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, Google, and Medium, redirecting them to alternatives like Invidious, Nitter, Libreddit, Proxigram, ProxiTok, SearXNG, and Scribe.

With customizable per-site settings, multiple provider options, and instance selection, Privacy Please empowers users to tailor their browsing experience for enhanced privacy while reducing tracking and ads. This extension requires no login and uses minimal resources, making it an unobtrusive addition to your browser. It is open-source and licensed under AGPL-3.0.

## Rankings

- #11,676 — Overall
- #16 — release
- #22 — privacy
- #24 — data privacy
- #149 — benefit
- #187 — base

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.twitter.com/*`
- `*://*.x.com/*`
- `*://*.reddit.com/*`
- `*://*.instagram.com/*`
- `*://*.facebook.com/*`
- `*://*.tiktok.com/*`
- `*://*.google.com/*`
- `*://*.medium.com/*`
- `*://*.imgur.com/*`
- `*://*.quora.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, twitter.com, x.com, reddit.com, instagram.com, facebook.com, tiktok.com, google.com, medium.com, imgur.com, quora.com
- 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/privacy-please)