about:privacy by Harshit Sohaney

about:privacy helps you understand how websites handle your privacy. It shows if a website respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) flag and blocks requests from common AI web crawlers, preventing them from scraping content from your webpages.

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About this extension

Stay Informed About the Pages You Visit, and How They Handle Your Data!

About:privacy analyzes .well-known resources like robots.txt and gpc.json to determine whether a website protects your data from AI training and respects your privacy preferences.

Features

Get a quick overview of whether AI web crawlers are blocked or allowed on a website.
Find out if a website respects your privacy requests via GPC (Global Privacy Control).
Read through the website's robots.txt file.

Future Work

Extend the list of crawlers and allow users to input custom ones.
Add support for ads.txt in a more human-readable form.
Provide more privacy information from additional resources to enhance users' browsing experiences.

If You'd Like to Contribute

We welcome new contributions to the extension. To contribute, make a pull request (PR) to

https://github.com/HarshitSohaney/about-privacy-extension
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