Maintainingprivacy is the most complicated and essential task when it comes to the cryptotrade, and this is why some of the privacy settings are left to the investor'schoice. This means that users based on their preferences or tradingrequirements can enable or disable privacy settings.
Apartfrom the general MetaMask settings, there are certain settings that usersshould be aware of to enhance the security level or to help the team improve theircurrent operations by working on them. Thus, the privacy settings that you canadjust through the MetaMask Chrome extension or any other extension supportedby MetaMask have been listed in this read.
What settings you can configure with the MetaMask extension?
MetaMask,as we all know is a secure software crypto wallet, that aims at safeguardingthe crypto funds and data of the user’s trade journey, and for this, the teamalways tries to introduce and involve new methods/settings through which usersbased on their preference or trading requirements can adjust the walletsettings.
Some ofthe settings that you can configure through any of the MetaMask extensions are:
Ø Incoming transactions
Ø Phishing detection
Ø MetaMetrics, and
Ø Fetch account balance requests
But,before we proceed with the complete process of how to adjust these settings, doyou know how each of the above-listed settingsfunctions when enabled/disabled?
If not,then we are here going to provide you with brief information about each of thefollowing.
What enabling/disabling each of the settings will do?
When youenable/disable the above-mentioned settings, the following things will takeplace. Let’s understand them one by one.
Incoming transactions:This feature only works with Goerli, and Sepoliatestnetsinaddition to the EthereumManniet. Disabling this will only reflect the confirmedtransactions that take place in your wallet.
Phishing detection:Activating this setting puts MetaMask at work to identify andinvestigate the sites that the users are visiting and notify (alert) them ifthe site they are visiting seems to be suspicious or matches its list ofphishing sites.
MetaMetrics: Enabling this setting, grants permission to the MetaMaskto gathernon-sensitive data relating to your account, with the aim of helping the teamto improve their wallet operations.
Fetch account balance requests:Activating this setting,permits MetaMask to fetch account balance from the network of your account(s). However,if you haven’t activated this account, then the balance of each of youraccounts will beupdated when you access them.
How can you adjust the followingprivacy settings?
If youwant to adjust the following settings, you can surely do so through the webbrowsers supported by MetaMask.
The routemap that you need to follow for configuring the following settings is asfollows:
1. Access your MetaMask Chrome extension
2. Navigate to the “Settings” head
3. To check/enable/disable your privacy settings, click on “Security& Privacy”. Check all the provided options and go with the one that youwant to enable or adjust
Closing Thoughts
Byadjusting the settings covered in the above-read, you can modify the working ofyour wallet through the MetaMask extension or any other extension byperforming the enlisted actions. To be clear, enabling or disabling thesesettings depending on your preference,helps in securing your wallet and tradedata along with improving the same by letting the team work on the loopholes. Further,it is a general recommendation that users should never share sensitive keys orany other confidential information relating to the wallet with anyone forpreventing the wallet from getting compromised.