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==Plug-Ins== | ==Plug-Ins== | ||
Plugins are abysmal for privacy in several respects. First, because of the wide variety of browser plugins, the presence or absence of plugins from navigator.plugins actually provides a large amount of information. | |||
Second, plugins themselves will happily provide websites with a large amount of identifying information about a user, including their list of installed fonts, their CPU model and speed, their local interface IP addresses, username, hostname, and so on. In addition, plugins can also have their own data and cookie stores, that they allow websites to manipulate. | |||
The best course of action may be to develop an independent policy for what plugins are allowed to do in anonymous and private browsing modes with respect to the above information. Any plugins that do not advertise their adherence to this policy should be disabled during the mode. | |||
==Extensions/Add-Ons== | ==Extensions/Add-Ons== | ||