The internet in last few years become really serious thing, which is really needed such as gas, electricity, TV and microwave. If you want, you can live without it, but internet helps a lot in life of every human in the world. But if there is a lot of people, there will be a lot of bad things. These things in internet — scripts and sites which will try to collect and use your private information in bad way.
Usually companies and corporations work a lot on safety, they try to create safe-internet. Really important when it comes to things such as tracking cookies and “bad” ads. The internet is enormous and millions of people will come in contact with something before Google, facebook and other media-gigants finds a way to blacklist it. There is something you can do though — install a few extensions that can improve your experience on the internet and make it a better place. Here are our list of the best Chrome extensions which you can use to stop tracking you, stop illegal crypto-mining, stop bad ADs or stop ALL ads on sites, basically everything that connected with your safety and privacy when you’re browsing World Wide Web.
AdGuard AdBlocker
AdGuard is not the best adblocker, but it still really useful, because it includes all protection in one extension. Such as blocking crypto-mining, tracking, advertisement and other bad things. But you always can turn it off and help site earn some money
uBlock Origin
Simple open-source adblocker, which has tiny effect on memory and CPU. It is easy to stop or run it, so you can support some prioritized sites.
Anti Miner
Open source project Anti Miner was created only for one thing — stop websites illegally using your CPU resources to get some bitcoins. The advantage of this extensions that it does not use a lot of CPU. For special situations you can activate mining, for example to support site.
Ghostery
Ghostery is superb extension to block any kinds of trackers(your destination, where did you came from, where will you go next).
Ghostery work without any settings, but you can easily customize it for yourself. Important feature, when you need, you press one button and it stops working.
Flashcontrol
Adobe Flash is starving thing, it will use a lot of your CPU. Also, it’s super unsafe, so better turn it off. Flashcontrol block all flash scripts on websites, if you want to see hidden content, you can press it and see this particular element.
Disconnect Facebook
Actually Facebook tracks every step on the internet, while your browser opened. So this autonomous extension stops it. You can still use facebook as usual, but it also will block like and share buttons on sites.
DuckDuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckDuck Go Privacy Essentials is a full pack of all tools for Chrome that all work without any difficulty setup.
After installation, you need to grant permissions, so extension can block trackers and use encrypted connection. Also, you can use DuckDuckDuck go for incognito searches.
NoScript
NoScript can block JavaScript, Flash, Java and other scripts which are running without your permission.
But before using, you need to set up it, so you can use some needed scripts(like in payments systems)
Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger was created by Electronic Frontier Foundation, which blocks attempts of sites to collect your data. Basically it just sends do not track command to all websites, if DNT ignored, it will stop trackers.