17 Chrome and Firefox extensions for your privacy and security

 Without getting into the details, the set of useful extensions can be overwhelmed for five categories:

Blockade of advertising
Suppression and falsification of information (IP, geolocation, user agent)
Clearing provided in the browser
Privacy options
Defense through malware and mining scripts

A number of browsers are established for the Chromium engine, its extensions are compatible with Brave, Opera and Vivaldi.

Ad blockers

The most important extension that you need to define yourself, and yes to all known and relatives - advertising worker. This is an absolute must have for everyone. Here are the most popular ones:

AdBlock Plus (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Android, iOS)
AdBlock (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
uBlock Origin (Chrome, Firefox)
Ghostery (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge)


Extremely recommend a positive blocker, they all do a pretty good job. Someone loves the fastest Ghostery, someone has adapted to the elderly AdBlock Plus.


The results of benchmarks at the beginning of February 2019, how much time it takes to finish the page with various ad blockers. Against investing, all of them, as a result, activate the loading of pages

Last but not least - vote after the perfect blocker.

Suppression of information


Silence of certain information: referrer, user agent, IP-address and geolocation. Protects through online trackers and allows you to correct your IP address in the output for the server.


User Agent Switcher


A simple and powerful continuation for switching between multiple user agent lines.

WebRTC Protect

WebRTC is an open source real-time communication framework. It is usually used for video calls and conferences via an Internet browser, that is, mobile devices.

The sequel to WebRTC Protect protects the user through IP revenues via WebRTC. The sequel is tiny and easy to use.


Unseen - privacy in chats
Defense by detecting Seen status in chat rooms. It functions with web messengers WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Web Telegram, etc., and on facebook sites. com and messenger.

Blocks the "Viewed" status, the final enterprise pointer and the "User is typing."

Location guard
Silence is the fake of its geographic location.

Clearing provided in the browser

Click & Clean (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)

Famous sequel to cleanup fleeting provided in the browser. Of course, the consistency options are consumed in the browser itself, but this extension produces a lot of customizable settings and increased cleaning options.


Privacy options

Privacy Settings

A minimalistic yet highly feature-rich sequel for the sake of managing privacy options. Differs in an artless interface.

Privacy Manager
More relocated air traffic controller privacy options in Chrome. There are a lot of options and settings for the sake of managing safety options and cookies. Permits yes to send viewing materials, for the sake of this to consume an impressive set of options.

Privacy Manager can generate mesh monitoring, cheat cookies, and fill in IP addresses over WebRTC.

Privacy Badger (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Android)

The sequel to Privacy Badger through the Electric Stages Foundation (EFF) unconsciously shows and blocks trackers and harmful scripts based on their behavior. Consume permissions for discrete items, including video players and dialog widgets.

The creators explain that they like Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and other similar extensions and ad blockers, but "they don't provide what they need." The test showed that all of these solutions for an effective service require some amount of uncomplaining configuration in order to block the original trackers. Some are scrapping an unacceptable business model by removing buyers from the block list after money. That's why EFF let go of a personal follow-up to block tracking.

Relocated open source cookie manager. Allows you to edit, add, manage, organize and search after cookies. Yes allows you to cheat the expiration date of cookies and import / export them.

Defense and harmlessness

Miner blocker

The continuation against cryptominers not only curbs the service of miner scripts, but also serves as an indicator for which sites such malware is delivered. Owners of sites believe this to be a legitimate modification of micropayments, sometimes readers pay with their resources for the service of access to information, however, in this case, it is moral to warn users about charging fees.

Fox Web Security

Maternal control: blocking sites with adult content. However, it is possible to bypass it, however, as if any blocking.

HTTPS Everywhere (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Firefox for Android), continued connected in Brave, Tor and Onion (iOS) by default

General development of the Tor Project and the Electric Frontier Foundation. Many sites do not implement full, but partial or incorrect HTTPS help. For example, after the default, the unprotected HTTP version is loaded, or separate hyperlinks are set for it on HTTPS pages. The sequel to HTTPS Everywhere fixes some of these bugs by changing requests for the fly.

Any sequel records its contribution to web page parsing and memory consumption, so it is desirable to define an imperative extremum and nothing more. For example, the "antivirus" extensions at an impressive level are in vain and use only CPU and memory repertoires extremely ineffectively, and at times they even plant worthless advertisements into the Internet browser, as if it were an antivirus continuation of Avast.

If you are used by other useful extensions for high protection of your own provided and security, add in the comments.