What privacy extensions are recommended?

Ensuring confidentiality on the internet requires a comprehensive approach, as modern websites use many hidden methods to collect users' personal data. Special browser extensions help minimize the digital footprint and protect personal information from unauthorized collection by marketing companies and social networks.

One of the basic tools is Privacy Badger, developed by the famous human rights organization EFF, which automatically blocks invisible trackers and spyware modules. It does not use ready-made blacklists, but learns right during your browsing, calculating and stopping attempts by third-party domains to track your activity.

For forcing traffic encryption, the HTTPS Everywhere extension is indispensable, automatically redirecting requests to the secure version of websites if they open by default over the unsecured HTTP protocol. This protects transmitted data from interception on public Wi-Fi networks and prevents man-in-the-middle attacks.

Additional protection is provided by Decentraleyes, which simulates the operation of popular CDN libraries locally on your computer. Instead of downloading common scripts from external servers like Google or Cloudflare every time you visit a site, the extension substitutes them from internal memory, speeding up loading and preventing IP address leaks.

It is also worth using ClearURLs to automatically clean links from hidden tracking tags, such as UTM tags, which are often added by advertisers. Finally, the standard uBlock Origin can be supplemented with specialized filtering lists aimed specifically at privacy protection and combating analytical scripts.