RubberGlove

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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

CRX ID
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Status
Minor Policy Violation Removed Long Ago No Privacy Policy
Description from extension meta

Blocks common browser fingerprint techniques to improve your privacy.

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RubberGlove
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RubberGlove aims to reduce the ability of websites to globally fingerprint your browser. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's website, panopticlick.eff.org, and the associated study shows just how effective these techniques are for tracking you even without cookies.

Currently it wraps the window.navigator and window.clientInformation objects to cloak plugins and mime types similar to the way it's done in Firefox and IE.

Planned future features:
* Ability to add exceptions for specified sites (very soon)
* Reduction of detailed version information both in window.navigator and the http User-Agent header.
* Prevention of time skew and drift fingerprinting
* Prevention of canvas based fingerprinting

Please note that until this plugin or others like it are widely used, Panopticlick will likely still report your browser as unique despite the significant reduction in bits of identifying information.

View the full source at https://github.com/jsclary/RubberGlove

Latest reviews

Dan Uber 2021-09-15

Rubber glove. This extension is not working anymore. It doesnt show the options. It's completely inactive. as his developer

Skyline Plaza FC VA US 2017-10-19

Made NO DIFFERENCE at https://panopticlick.eff.org/results?&t=111&dnt=111#fingerprintTable test

Cory 2017-07-06

made no difference in panopticlick.

Mai Ling 2017-02-02

The author seems to be absent from the internet: no response on github, last activity on superuser.com summer 2016, no other web results for his name. The critical missing feature that someone needs to fork and implement is the whitelisting. This is the repository https://github.com/jsclary/RubberGlove

Ning Cao 2016-12-09

good

Adrián Lamo 2016-08-25

Rolling out a whitelist (vs. having to manually disable it whenever I want to use a site it breaks) should be a priority. As of this writing the feature will be available "very soon" - it's been that way for a while, and it needs it like, yesterday. User customization of privacy enhancements - enabling and disabling first, then modifying, then manually adding & suggesting (I understand the latter won't be as easy) should come next. These features would make this tool a real winner among users concerned with privacy and in the privacy community. I would be very likely to endorse it at that point. RubberGlove is off to a good start. Some tweaks and mid-to-long term planning for changes could make it great.

Anonymous 2016-08-20

This made a huge difference on how Panopticlick read my fingerprint. It does kick me back to the old gmail interface but frankly I get tired of the wait while that loads. It also kills youtube from what I can gather so yeah a whitelist would be a good next step. It also kills my RSS reader and I tried 2 others and the same results. I find it also kills disqus commenting and probably livefyre as well.

Lachlan Moss 2016-07-22

badly needs a whitelist

Stefan Bode 2016-05-19

Installed because of getting rid of my very specific font list delivered by Javascript. Turning this off is not an option. The extension changes nothing as far as I can see. no improvement.

Ben Carter 2016-02-12

The Panopticlick fingerprinting test page reports almost the same identification level with or without the extension. The useragent got even more bits (14.9) than before (12). The extension list is still available, so is the font list. Don't know how this is preventing anything.

Stephan Uchida 2015-02-02

Works for the most part but prevent some of my websites from working with no option to whitelist the sites.

Nacho Garcia 2014-12-04

Funciona perfectamente.

Statistics

Installs
346
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
-
Rating
3.3 (21 votes)
Last update
2014-07-11
Version 14.7.8.0
Languages
en