Reviews for Privacy Possum
Privacy Possum by cowlicks
409 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13489523, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nir94, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14243006, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alberto T. Gomez, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14239461, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jon, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13746467, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14224752, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14211116, 6 years agoThe add-on is good, accomplishes the essential as privacy.
The only inconvenience that it does not protect me from the fingerprint tracking.
I did two online tests(Am I unique?, Panopticlick EFF) with the extension enabled, and in both of them my test result was positive.Developer response
posted 6 years agoTL;DR Panopticlick and Am I Unique use a homerolled assortment of tracking code that is impractical for commercial tracking.
I'll go into a little detail about Panopticlick to explain more. Panopticlick uses a deployment of the open source fingerprinting tool Fingerprintjs2, along with their own unique fingerprinting code.
I added some debug code and visited Panopticlick I see Privacy Possum detects the page accessing 12 API's that are marked for watching for fingerprinting. Except this is split over 3 different scripts:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/fp2.js
https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/fetch_whorls.js
https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/deployJava.js
Privacy watches for fingerprinting on *per script basis*, this is a reasonable assumption because, normally a websites tracking code is bundled into one place, so that the tracking info can be easily aggregated and used. I'm not aware of a real deployment where tracking is split up like this. It is practical for panopticlick (and Am I Unique) because they want to present information about your tracking independently, and manage the code to do that in a more practical way.
For a demonstration of the fingerprinting detection code, I usually point folks to:
http://valve.github.io/fingerprintjs2/
I think it is worth considering cases like Panopticlick, or Am I Unique, because they can be used to evade PP's novel detection. But I have not seen a case like this in the wild. - Rated 5 out of 5by josefmax, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by UNOwen, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14201010, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14025195, 6 years agoThe extension appears to work well, but there is not a lot of detail about what is going on. the extension lost a star for this. When more information is available on how and what is going on it will move to 5 stars if everything else remains that same.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14187682, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14175681, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Milind, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jorg35, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13977959, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by rt, 6 years agoGoes beyond Privacy Badger into the new age of tracking. Will becomem an instant classic
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14003365, 7 years agoThis add on breaks cybrary.it, but is good in general.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello I'm the developer of Privacy Possum, can you tell me more about how https://cybrary.it/ is broken? I visited the site and was not able to reproduce a breakage, but I don't have a login. - Rated 5 out of 5by alekksander, 7 years agovery promising. perfect complement for your privacy.
(please add config)