Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy(privacymagic.com)
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Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy
https://privacymagic.com/about/
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Typically adblockers block ads and trackers, but Privacy Magic does much more than that:
- Fingerprinting resistance: Privacy Magic hardens canvas, time zone, battery, audio, and many more APIs to block fingerprinting - Third-party cookies: all blocked by default - Tracking URL parameters: all removed - Browser Ad APIs: all disabled - Workers and iframes: Hardening is propagated to these contexts
After working for the past decade on Tor Browser, Firefox, and Brave, I wanted to see if it's possible to protect users where 90% of them already are: on Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Edge.
I'm happy to answer questions about tradeoffs between privacy and usability!
- Fingerprinting resistance: Privacy Magic hardens canvas, time zone, battery, audio, and many more APIs to block fingerprinting - Third-party cookies: all blocked by default - Tracking URL parameters: all removed - Browser Ad APIs: all disabled - Workers and iframes: Hardening is propagated to these contexts
After working for the past decade on Tor Browser, Firefox, and Brave, I wanted to see if it's possible to protect users where 90% of them already are: on Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Edge.
I'm happy to answer questions about tradeoffs between privacy and usability!
You can try the extension on desktop Chrome here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-magic/coboj...
I would be very grateful for feedback! I plan to continuously improve the privacy and usability of Privacy Magic.