# Privacy Tweaks

> Improve your privacy and browse safer with seven tweaks.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `privacy-tweaks`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Benthum
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 30
- **Weekly downloads:** 13
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (6 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-16
- **First published:** 2018-10-14
- **Size:** 3.94 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-tweaks/)
- **Website:** [https://mybrowseraddon.com/privacy-tweaks.html](https://mybrowseraddon.com/privacy-tweaks.html)

## Description

Privacy Tweaks is a lite Firefox add-on that helps you improve your privacy while browsing by using seven different techniques. It blocks ads, fingerprints, trackers, and more, allowing you to browse safer.

## Rankings

- #20,238 — Overall
- #36 — privacy
- #43 — data privacy
- #236 — improve

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `proxy`
- `storage`
- `privacy`
- `notifications`
- `declarativeNetRequest`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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/privacy-tweaks)