Why add better safety at Firefox; Every time you connect to a website using any browser, the website automatically collects many information from your computer. Although not all websites process or record the information, some of them may well use it to locate you and for other purposes such as targeted advertising.
If you are worried enough and want to know more, there are Web services such as the Panopticlick of the EFF that tell you what information websites collect when you connect to them. The information you unwittingly share may include your operating system type, your web browser and its version, the size of screen your system fonts or what plugins you use.
What you could do quickly and simply is to install it Random Agent Spoofers in your Firefox. This add-on will send false information to the websites you visit.
As for plugins, web pages can only detect plugins that are enabled in your browser. So while you can - and should - disable plugins that you do not use, you can not block information sent by plugins that are enabled.
This can be changed by a Firefox add-on: Hide Plugin & Mimetype that you can install on your browser. Once you do this, there is no plugin information for the web pages that collect them. You can check the results of the add-on on the Panopticlick website.
How do they help all of this?
It should be noted that the add-on Hide Plugin & Mimetype does not prevent the operation of plugins. You can specify which plugins to run, you can prevent plugins from running automatically for a more secure browsing.
Ο exclusion των πληροφοριών αποτρέπει τις ιστοσελίδες να χρησιμοποιούν τα plugins για την αναγνώριση των χρηστών. Οι ιστοσελίδες όσο περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορούν να συγκεντρώσουν, τόσο πιθανότερο είναι ότι μπορούν να δημιουργήσουν ένα μοναδικό αποτύπωμα του χρήστη για να μπορούν να τον αναγνωρίζουν, ακόμη και χωρίς τη χρήση των cookies που αποθηκεύονται στον υπολογιστή του.
Two additional add-ons
The developer of the extension has created two additional add-ons that some users may find useful. One can help turn off the links you have visited something that prevents websites from collecting data about websites, services you have visited in the past, or articles you have read. Try it Disable visited links
Another quite addictive add-on is it Disable WebRTC. This add-on prevents your network and IP from being exposed to Internet services.
