about:privacy
about:privacy is a Firefox browser extension that analyzes resources such as robots.txt and gpc.json to show whether websites respect Global Privacy Control and block common AI web crawlers. It helps users inspect privacy signals while browsing.
Overview
5 featuresabout:privacy is a Browser DevTools & extensions project. It focuses on understanding website privacy practices and preventing common AI crawlers from scraping webpages. It is built as a consumer product for privacy-conscious Firefox users and website visitors. about:privacy is free to use. It ships for the web and embeddable surfaces.
Harshit Sohaney builds and maintains about:privacy, and it first shipped in 2024. Key capabilities include crawler status overview, GPC detection, and robots.txt reader. The interface is available in 32 languages, including Czech, German, and Greek.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Crawler status overview
- GPC detection
- robots.txt reader
- AI crawler blocking
- Privacy resource analysis
Built with & integrations
Trust & compliance
Indexing history
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Frequently asked questions about about:privacy
- What does about:privacy do?
- About:privacy focuses on understanding website privacy practices and preventing common AI crawlers from scraping webpages. It is catalogued under Browser DevTools & extensions on PulseGate.
- Who is about:privacy for?
- about:privacy is a consumer product built for privacy-conscious Firefox users and website visitors.
- Is about:privacy free?
- Yes — about:privacy is free to use.
- What platforms does about:privacy run on?
- about:privacy runs on the web and embeddable surfaces.
- Is about:privacy still maintained?
- Unverified. about:privacy has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
- What are alternatives to about:privacy?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include PrivacyCheck, Privacy Inspector, and Guardra.PrivacyCheckPrivacy InspectorGuardra
- Who develops about:privacy?
- about:privacy is developed by Harshit Sohaney.
- How long has about:privacy been around?
- about:privacy first shipped in 2024.
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