隐私是现代互联网用户最关注的网络浏览器功能。大多数网站都会在线跟踪您,以便为您提供有关您可以购买的产品的相关建议。不仅如此,您的信息还可用于跟踪您的互联网行为,并可用于对您不利。大多数跟踪是通过对您的设备进行指纹识别或其他相关方法完成的。在这篇文章中,我们介绍了一个名为Trace的(Trace)Google Chrome和Firefox扩展程序,它可以帮助您在互联网上保护您的隐私。它让您在线浏览不留痕迹!
(Trace)Firefox和Chrome的(Chrome)跟踪扩展
Trace 是一个简单的扩展程序,旨在改进Google Chrome和Mozilla Firefox上以隐私为中心的功能。它带有一些基本的保护功能,每个人都应该在他们的设备上启用。
指纹保护
指纹是您的浏览器生成的唯一哈希值。由于哈希是唯一的,它可以用来跟踪浏览器的实例。浏览器指纹识别的两种流行形式是画布指纹识别(Canvas Fingerprinting)和音频指纹识别(Audio Fingerprinting)。
Canvas Fingerprinting是一种通过散列由HTML5 Canvas元素生成的图像来唯一识别浏览器的方法。为了克服这种形式的指纹识别,Trace将在每个请求中随机化Canvas哈希。(Canvas)这会使画布指纹识别变得无用,并且无法跟踪您。
网络请求控制器
此功能将跟踪从您的浏览器传递的每个 Web 请求。它将尝试删除已知的跟踪文件、URL参数和阻止跟踪服务器。默认情况下,它适用于所有网站,如果需要,您可以将任何例外列入白名单。
网络信息接口
您浏览器中的此API可以公开网络信息,例如速度和其他详细信息。如果您想要防止网络信息跟踪,请启用此功能。启用后,每次都将返回相同的值,从而难以跟踪网站。
WebRTC 保护
默认情况下,网站可以访问您的本地 IP 信息。它与公共 IP 的组合可以用作跟踪您的唯一标识符。您可以轻松地从设置中启用此功能以防止此类跟踪。
谷歌标题删除
这是一个棘手的功能。当您从Chrome访问某些(Chrome)Google的服务时,一些关于您的Chrome安装的额外标头会随每个请求一起发送。此功能将从请求中删除此类标头,确切地说:X-Client-Data、X- Chrome -UMA-Enabled、X- Chrome -Variations和 X - Chrome -Connected 。此功能确实带有警告说明,指出这可能会导致某些Google服务出现奇怪的行为。
统计数据
该扩展带有一个很好的统计页面。此页面可让您查看正在运行的扩展程序。它可以让您查看今天有多少请求被阻止以及它们在不同类别中的分解情况。它还将向您显示它当前从未缓存的常规阻止列表中阻止的记录数。虽然您可以删除统计信息,但您也可以将它们导出为CSV、XML或JSON文件以供进一步处理。
Trace 是一个很好的浏览器扩展。大多数功能都可以正常工作,并且可以防止许多网站被跟踪。但他们中的一些人也很谨慎。然后还有一些可用的实验性功能。开发仍在进行中,我们希望该工具很快会更加完善和完善。该扩展还提供相关信息和链接,您可以在其中检查保护是否有效。
这是一个高度可定制的Web 浏览器(Web Browsers)扩展,因此您可能会遇到一些棘手的技术术语。但我可以向你保证,该程序在向普通用户解释它们方面做得很好。去这里(Go here)(Go here)下载 Trace。
Trace offers excellent Tracking protection for Chrome and Firefox
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Trace extension for Firefox & Chrome
Trace is a simple extension that was built to improve privacy-centric features on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It comes with some essential protection features that everyone should have enabled on their devices.
Fingerprint Protection
A fingerprint is a unique hash produced by your browser. Since the hash is unique, it can be used to track an instance of a browser. Two prevalent forms of browser fingerprinting are Canvas Fingerprinting and Audio Fingerprinting.
Canvas Fingerprinting is a method of uniquely identifying browsers by hashing an image produced by the HTML5 Canvas element. To overcome such form of fingerprinting, Trace will randomize the Canvas hash with every request. Which renders canvas fingerprinting as useless and makes it impossible to track you.
Web Request Controller
This is a feature that will track each web request that passes from your browser. It will try to remove known tracking files, URL parameters, and block tracking servers. It will by default work for all websites, and you can whitelist any exception If you want.
Network Information API
This API in your browser can expose network information such as speed and other details. Enable this feature if you want protection against network information tracking. Once enabled, this will return same value every time making it difficult to track for websites.
WebRTC Protection
Websites have access to your local IP information by default. Its combination with public IP can be used as a unique identifier for tracking you. You can easily enable this feature from settings to prevent such tracking.
Google Header Removal
This is one tricky feature. While you access some Google’s services from Chrome, some extra headers about your Chrome installation are sent along with every request. This feature will remove such headers from requests, precisely: X-Client-Data, X-Chrome-UMA-Enabled, X-Chrome-Variations, and X-Chrome-Connected. This feature does come with a caution note saying that this might cause strange behavior on some Google services.
Statistics
The extension comes with a good Statistics page. This page lets you view the extension in action. It lets you view how many requests were blocked today and their break up in different categories. It will also show you the number of records it is currently blocking from the uncached regular blocklist. While you can delete statistics, you can also export them as CSV, XML or JSON files for further processing.
Trace is a good extension to have on your browser. Most of the features work fine and can prevent a lot of websites from tracking. But a few of them come with caution too. And then there are some experimental features available as well. The development is still on, and we expect the tool to be more polished and refined very soon. The extension also provides relevant information and links where you can check if the protection is working or not.
This is a highly customizable extension for Web Browsers so you might face a few tricky technical terms. But I can assure you that the program does very well in explaining them to a normal average user. Go here to download Trace.