Tools and Add-ons For protecting Your Privacy Onlione

Prism-Break is an exceptional resource to help you safeguard your privacy and security online.

My preferred way to do it in a browser is the following:

For desktops/laptops:

• HTTPS Everywhere - automatically enables SSL encryption when you're browsing the web, for the websites that offer SSL. This should make it so that the information transmitted between you and the server (the website) is encrypted and secure.
• EditThisCookie (Chrome/Opera) - Allows you to delete, edit, create, and block cookies that are stored in your browser. This can prevent websites from uniquely identifying you using data stored on your computer, in the form of cookies.
• Tab Cookies (Chrome) / Self-Destructing Cookies (Firefox) - Automatically deletes website cookies (and other data stored locally) once you close the web browser tab for that website. Helps prevent tracking like EditThisCookie.
• uBlock Origin - This extension filters anything you'd like on different websites - like content from ad servers, malware sites, and various site elements that you simply wish to remove. Prevents intrusive ads, and malware exposure - and also increases page loading speed. You don't need both uBlock Origin and NoScript.
• Disconnect - Stops tracking by +2000 different third-party sites ("trackers"), and helps prevent ad companies from tracking you online. Also increases page loading speed.
• NoScript - Allows you to choose what kinds of "active" content (such as JavaScript, Java, Flash) you wish to load when using browsers. This prevents websites using these technologies to harm your computer (malware, for example), and track your identity. Makes for a more secure and private browsing experience. Has more far-reaching content blocking capabilities than uBlock Origin.

For mobile users:

• Android Browser Addons
• iOS Privacy options

The nuclear options:

• Tor Browser
• Tails

Some background info:

Many websites track your online activity in various ways, mostly in order to create customized ads but also for more nefarious purposes. This unique information about you is a product that is sold and bought by companies. These extensions help prevent this (by blocking tracking and removing cookies).

They also make websites load faster by removing ads and excessive website elements (by ordinary content blocking), and makes it harder for malware to get to your computer (by blocking active content and links to malware).

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