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The privacy panel and dashboard

See what Luma blocked on the page in front of you, and how it has protected you over the last 30 days.

Every page has a privacy panel, opened from the address bar. The privacy dashboard gathers the same information for all your browsing, and is where you manage what each site may do.

Open the panel

Click the shield at the start of the address bar. Its badge shows how many things were blocked on the page; on a page without a secure connection a warning sign takes the shield’s place. In the dock layout, the panel opens from the shield at the start of the dock, which shows the same count.

When a site is asking for a permission, the same button opens the request first. See Permissions.

What the panel shows

  • At the top, the site’s name with Protections are on (or Protections are off for this site), and the Protections for this site switch, which turns blocking off and on for the site. The page reloads when you change it.
  • One line that sums up the page, such as “8 trackers and 1 ad blocked · Secure connection”. First what was stopped (trackers, ads and third-party cookies), or Nothing blocked yet, or Blocking is off for this site; then the connection: Secure connection; Secure connection, upgraded to HTTPS when Luma switched the address to HTTPS for you; Connection not secure; or Certificate error ignored when you chose to continue past a certificate warning.
  • Blocked on this page: the addresses that were blocked (up to eight), each marked Tracker, Ad or Cookie banner, with how many times.
  • Permissions for this site: the permissions you allowed or blocked for it.

At the bottom are Is this site not working? (with protections off, Report this site instead: see Blocking ads and trackers) and the Privacy dashboard link. On Luma’s own pages the panel simply says that no trackers can run there.

The privacy dashboard

Open it from the ⋯ menu › Privacy dashboard, from the link at the bottom of the panel, or by typing luma://privacy in the address bar.

  • The totals: Trackers blocked, Ads blocked, Third-party cookies blocked and Upgraded to HTTPS.
  • Last 30 days: trackers and ads blocked each day.
  • Most blocked: the sites Luma blocked most often.
  • Site permissions: every site you gave a decision to, with each permission set to Allow, Block or Ask. Change it from the menu next to it.
  • Protections turned off: the sites where you turned protections off, each with a switch to turn them back on.
  • Site data: the sites that stored cookies on this device, with how many. Remove deletes one site’s data, Remove all deletes everyone’s and signs you out of those sites.