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There's this addon as well that Firefox marks as "recommended", for whatever reassurance that may give you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clea

by untog 7y ago

There's this addon as well that Firefox marks as "recommended", for whatever reassurance that may give you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/?src=featured https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/?sr... "Recommended extensions are curated extensions that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff thoroughly evaluate each extension before it receives Recommended status." https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-... (presumably any extension like this has access to every URL you visit, which is enough to give me pause)

solarkraft 7y ago
It requires all kinds of weird permissions, which also gives me pause. I'll trust it because it's recommended, but ... why does it want access to all data on every website?
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  How else would it rewrite links on every website?
  - Y_Y 7y ago
    It just has to modify the links you follow. You could get most of the way with a regex in the URL bar.
    - chipsa 7y ago
      I'm not sure about FF internals, but if you want to stop the tracker bits from being sent, doing in the URL bar might be after the link gets sent to the server, in which case they still get the tracking info. So you need to rewrite it before it gets clicked.
marssaxman 7y ago
Thank you for the recommendation! This will add some peace of mind.