Compare Chrome extensions: HCOS - Hide Chrome Omnibox Suggestions vs Privacy Badger

Stats HCOS - Hide Chrome Omnibox Suggestions HCOS - Hide Chrome Omnibox Suggestions Privacy Badger Privacy Badger
User count 10,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.66 4.42
Rating count 95 1,711
Last updated 2020-11-24 2024-02-06
Size 36.34K 1.90M
Version 1.1 2024.2.6
Short description
Hide Chrome Omnibox (Search&Address bar) Suggestions. Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Full summary

English Summary

  1. Omnibox is the abbreviation of "multifunctional address bar", which can be simply understood as an address bar.
  2. The main purpose of this extension is to hide the historical search suggestions that pop up after the cursor in the address bar of the new tab page is focused (the background is implemented to delete the Google search record).
  3. Support to add a custom website, open the extension options page, you can add a custom URL prefix to the page.

中文简介

  1. Omnibox为“多功能地址栏”简称,可以简单理解为地址栏。
  2. 该扩展主要目的是为了隐藏新建标签页面地址栏光标聚焦后所弹出的历史搜索建议(后台实现为删除该条Google搜索记录)。
  3. 支持添加自定义网站,打开扩展选项页面,可以在该页面中添加自定义网址前缀。

Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal to tell companies not to track you. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger will learn to block them.

Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful trackers (video players, comments widgets, etc.) with click-to-activate placeholders, and removes outgoing link click tracking on Facebook and Google, with more privacy protections on the way. To learn more, see our FAQ at https://privacybadger.org/#faq

To get help or to report bugs, please email extension-devs@eff.org. If you have a GitHub account, you can use our GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues

*** Why does Privacy Badger need to read and change all my data on the websites I visit? ***

When you install Privacy Badger, your browser warns that Privacy Badger can “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”. You are right to be alarmed. You should only install extensions made by organizations you trust.

Privacy Badger requires these permissions to do its job of automatically detecting and blocking trackers on all websites you visit. We are not ironically (or unironically) spying on you. For more information, see our Privacy Badger extension permissions explainer: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/permissions.md

Note that the extension permissions warnings only cover what the extension has access to, not what the extension actually does with what it has access to (such as whether the extension secretly uploads your browsing data to its servers). Privacy Badger will never share data about your browsing unless you choose to share it (by filing a broken site report). For more information, see EFF’s Privacy Policy for Software: https://www.eff.org/code/privacy/policy