Tips to protect your online privacy
Some websites track our online behavior to give us customized online experiences. If we’re not careful, this can also put us at risk of having our information accessed by third parties without our knowledge.
You don’t have to sacrifice your privacy every time you go online. Here are some tips to help you control what information is saved, tracked or shared.
Private Browsing: Don’t save a record of your online behavior
When sharing a computer with others, follow these tips to keep your information, such as browsing history and logins, private:
- Use Private Browsing mode to prevent your history, site preferences or logins from being saved and accessed by others. Private Browsing also blocks cookies, preventing fraudsters and snoops from tracking your behavior.
- If you forget to use Private Browsing mode on a shared computer, don’t worry. You can still use the Forget button
to quickly delete your recent information without affecting the rest.
Do Not Track: Tell websites you do not want to be tracked
The Do Not Track feature tells websites - and their networks - that you don’t want your browsing behavior monitored and shared. Waterfox is helping more and more companies implement Do Not Track.
Do Not Track is available in Waterfox and Waterfox for Android.
Tracking Protection: Prevent websites from tracking you
Websites are not required to respect Do Not Track requests. Waterfox has an experimental Tracking Protection feature that actively prevents tracking, by using a blocklist of domains and websites that are known to track users.
Tracking Protection is available in Waterfox and Waterfox for Android.
More privacy add-ons
Your choices don’t end here. Waterfox has thousands of available add-ons to protect your privacy! Choose from add-ons that block advertising and trackers to ones that prevent search engines from modifying your search results.
See the Privacy Add-on collection.