{"id":2118,"date":"2013-06-20T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:02:39","slug":"firefox-plugins-browser-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Firefox Plugins To Make Browsing More Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep you safe while surfing the web on your browser of choice. Each one has lots of options; for Firefox, here are five of the best for guarding your information.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/logo_NoScript.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2125\" alt=\"logo_NoScript\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/logo_NoScript.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/a>NoScript: <\/b>Scripts that run in the background of websites are one of the main ways attackers exploit sites and user systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/noscript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NoScript<\/a> nips that problem in the bud by allowing JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only on sites deemed trustworthy by the user, blocking exploits while maintaining full site functionality.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110302\/2013-06-18-12_41_04-NoScript.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2121\" alt=\"2013-06-18 12_41_04-NoScript\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110302\/2013-06-18-12_41_04-NoScript.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"385\"><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110256\/Better_privacy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2127\" alt=\"Better_privacy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110256\/Better_privacy.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/a>Better Privacy: <\/b>For better and, too often, worse, cookies are what tracks our movement through the Internet. They make it so we don\u2019t have sign back in every time we go to a site with a login, but they also store and send information about us and our Internet habits. <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/betterprivacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Better Privacy<\/a> protects against a new breed of longterm cookies used by marketing firms to inundate users with ads by listing these Flash cookies and allowing users to list and manage which cookies they allow and which they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">Plugins are designed to keep you safe while surfing the web on your browser of choice, and fortunately there is an entire market of these add-on utilities.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110255\/pure2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2128\" alt=\"pure2013\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110255\/pure2013.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/a>Kaspersky Anti-Banner: <\/b>This feature is built into the award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/plus?icid=me-en_bb2022-kdplacehd_acq_ona_smm__onl_b2c_kdaily_lnk_sm-team___kplus___\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaspersky Plus<\/a>, a platform for protecting your system from Internet threats, as well as the robust anti-virus suite <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/products-services\/home-computer-security\/PURE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaspersky PURE 3.0<\/a>. The Kaspersky Anti-Banner plugin blocks advertising information located on banners and built into the interfaces of programs displayed online. An independent alternative to this is Adblock Plus, which like Kaspersky\u2019s plugin removes online advertisements and blocks known malware domains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/Pure_AntiBanner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2124\" alt=\"Pure_AntiBanner\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/Pure_AntiBanner.png\" width=\"569\" height=\"456\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110255\/logo_SelfDestructCookies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2129\" alt=\"logo_SelfDestructCookies\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110255\/logo_SelfDestructCookies.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/a>Self-Destructing Cookies: <\/b>Similar in its target to Better Privacy, <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/self-destructing-cookies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Self-Destructing Cookies<\/a> aims to eliminate excessive cookie tracking. It does this by automatically removing cookies when they are no longer in use by open browser tabs, and tracking cookies are automatically removed upon detection. It is also designed to work with the lists of permissions granted in other plugins like Ghostery and Adblock Plus.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110301\/SelfDestructCookies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2122\" alt=\"SelfDestructCookies\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110301\/SelfDestructCookies.png\" width=\"454\" height=\"525\"><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/logo_Stealthy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2126\" alt=\"logo_Stealthy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110257\/logo_Stealthy.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/a>Stealthy: <\/b>Particularly useful in countries where access to popular social sites like Facebook and YouTube is blocked, this plugin hides your IP address to prevent you from being tracked online and allows you to skirt censorship firewalls. Even if censorship isn\u2019t useful, by using the proxies that <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/stealthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stealthy<\/a> provides, having your identity hidden during online activity is never a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110259\/Stealthy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2123\" alt=\"Stealthy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2013\/06\/05110259\/Stealthy.png\" width=\"538\" height=\"428\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,417,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-2118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-browser-security","9":"tag-plugins","10":"tag-privacy"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/1030\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/firefox-plugins-browser-privacy\/2118\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/browser-security\/","name":"browser security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}