TheCreeper / Privacyfox
Licence: gpl-3.0
PrivacyFox tweaks various preferences in Firefox in order to enhance the privacy of users; it will also try to enforce these changes to maintain your privacy online.
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PrivacyFox tweaks various preferences in Firefox in order to enhance the privacy of users; it will also try to enforce these changes to maintain your privacy online.
Affected Preferences
| Preference | Default | New | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| media.peerconnection.enabled | true | false | WebRTC can leak a users IP address from behind a VPN or proxy. |
| network.websocket.enabled | true | false | Websockets can cause some dns requests to not be send over the active proxy. |
| network.http.sendRefererHeader | 2 | 0 | Tells the server which page the user came from. |
| network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer | true | false | Tells the server which https page the user came from. |
| network.dnsCacheEntries | 400 | 100 | Number of cached DNS entries (lower number=more requests but less data stored). |
| privacy.trackingprotection.enabled | false | true | This is Mozilla’s new built in tracking protection. |
| dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled | true | false | Websites can get notifications if you copy, paste, or cut something from a web page, and it lets them know which part of the page had been selected. |
| dom.event.contextmenu.enabled | true | false | Disables website control over rightclick context menu. |
| geo.enabled | true | false | Disables geolocation. |
| geo.wifi.logging.enabled | true | false | Disables logging geolocation requests. |
| browser.formfill.enable | true | false | Disables saving of formdata. |
| browser.safebrowsing.enabled | true | false | Disable Google Safe Browsing and phishing protection. Security risk, but privacy improvement. |
| browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled | true | false | Disable Google Safe Browsing malware checks. Security risk, but privacy improvement. |
| browser.send_pings | true | false | Allows websites to track users clicks. |
| browser.cache.disk.enable | true | false | Disables caching on hardrive. |
| browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl | true | false | Disables caching for ssl connections. |
| browser.cache.offline.enable | true | false | Disables the offline disk cache. |
| webgl.disabled | false | true | WebGL is a potential security risk. |
References
STUN IP Address requests for WebRTC
Firefox security bug (proxy-bypass) in current TBBs
Tracking Protection in Firefox
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