Private Browsing aims to help you make sure that your web browsing activities don't leave any trace on your own computer. We do require that add-ons respect Private Browsing Mode, and our privacy team is working on a recommendation (not a requirement) that add-ons also honor the user's Do Not Track preferences.Īs the person who implemented Private Browsing describes: It has nothing to do with websites tracking you that's what the Do Not Track feature is.
Private Browsing Mode is for browsing without storing information on your computer.
We encourage users to always read an add-on's privacy policy if one is provided and to use the Report Abuse link if anything suspicious is noticed.
Because developers set their own privacy policies and can update them any time, it is more difficult for us to review them for compliance with their own rules. They'll also show a notice about this on their first-run website.Īdditionally, the AntRank feature that uses this tracking can be disabled.Īdd-ons publicly available in our gallery have been reviewed for security problems, and add-ons that aren't marked as experimental have been fully reviewed for a range of other issues as described in our hosting policies. The developer has been in communication with us and says that they destroy all user-identifiable information from their logs, and that their privacy policy and add-on description will be updated to reflect that. We have contacted the developer and asked them to correct this. While this does not violate our policies, we do require it to be disclosed in the privacy policy and the add-on's description. We've looked into the Ant Video Player and found that it does send information about websites users visit in order to power its ranking feature displayed for each website, and also includes a unique identifier in this communication.