Privacy Tools
On this page, you will find links to tools that can help improve your privacy on the Internet. With respect to fingerprinting, the best solutions that exist today are to simply block tracking scripts. We cannot recommend spoofers because there is a risk that fingerprinters can detect such spoofing techniques quite easily, which would quickly identify you as a liar. Because the number of spoofers is likely low, your other discriminating data (e.g. fonts and plugins) should be more than sufficient to fingerprint and track you.
Extension | Description An efficient ad and tracker blocker with a small performance footprint! | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Protect your privacy by blocking trackers on the Web and by learning who is watching you! | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Encrypt the web! Enable HTTPS automatically on websites that are known to support it. A project by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). This extension includes an option to verify SSL certificates directly by the EFF SSL Observatory. | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Visualize in details the servers you are contacting when you are surfing on the Internet! Developed by Mozilla. Presentation of Lightbeam by Gary Kovacs, former CEO of Mozilla, in a TED talk. | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Block advertisements, trackers and more! We recommend the use of additional lists like the Fanboy Complete AdBlock list. | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Stop tracking by third-party sites and visualize who is tracking you! | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Block spying ads and invisible trackers! A project by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Take control of what is running in your browser by blocking unwanted scripts! | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Extension | Description Remove cookies that are no longer used as soon as you close a tab! | Website | Chrome extension | Firefox extension |
Le moteur de recherche qui respecte votre vie privée. Qwant est un moteur de recherche lancé en 2013 qui ne trace pas les activités des utilisateurs et ne stocke pas d'informations personnelles. Qwant ne cherchera jamais à savoir qui vous êtes ou ce que vous faites personnellement lorsque vous utiliserez son moteur de recherche.
The search engine that doesn't track you.Launched in 2008, DuckDuckGo differentiates itself from other search engines by emphasizing the protection of searchers' privacy. Moreover, it avoids the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information.
The Tor network is a group of servers aimed at improving users' anonymity by routing all their traffic through a dedicated network. The Tor browser is based on Firefox and it uses the Tor network. It has been heavily modified to limit as most as possible known fingerprinting techniques so that users share a unique fingerprint (even if in practice, the reality is a little bit different).
Based around the Tor browser and the Tor network, Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) goes a step further by providing the exact same environment to its users. The operating system has been heavily modified so that it does not leave a single trace on the computer. With the Tor browser, these are the strongest tools against fingerprinting at the price of a decline in usability.
TrackOFF, a Baltimore-based startup, has launched in mid-2015 a software suite that detects threats and changes your browser fingerprint to improve your digital privacy. Running on Windows for Chrome and Firefox, a trial is available to test this new service.