Chrome-Stats extension
PrivacyMeter
Real-time Privacy Quantification for the Web
Stats
- tabs
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
- webRequest
- webRequestBlocking
- webNavigation
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- notifications
Other platforms
Summary
PrivacyMeter provides a real-time privacy quantification for the modern Web. It is a browser extension that, on-the-fly, computes a relative privacy score for any website that a user is visiting. This score is computed based on each website's privacy practices and how these compare to the privacy practices of many other pre-analyzed websites. Currently, it supports four main widgets, analyzing the trackers present on the page, fingerprinting activity, amount of third-party content, and leaky web forms. In addition, the extension provides users with contextual information about all the discovered privacy issues.
PrivacyMeter is a non-commercial research tool developed by PragSec Lab at Stony Brook University (http://pragsec.com), and proudly powered by EasyList (https://easylist.to), Adblock Plus (https://adblockplus.org), Web of Trust "MyWOT" (https://www.mywot.com), IP2Location LITE (http://lite.ip2location.com), Alexa Top Sites (https://www.alexa.com/topsites), and Highcharts (https://www.highcharts.com).
The development of PrivacyMeter is supported by the Data Transparency Lab (http://datatransparencylab.org/dtl-2016/grantees-2016/)!
About Privacy Policy:
- The extension anonymously caches information about trackers on its backend (of course, without any information about actually visited websites by the users) in order to achieve reasonable performance.
- If "crowdsourcing is enabled", the extension reports to its backend the following privacy practices per web page: list of present trackers, fingerprinting APIs called, list of third-party iframes, and the list of leaky web forms. No personally identifiable information will be collected, and no visited URLs will be shared with third-parties!
If you have any questions, please contact us at PragSec Lab (http://pragsec.com), and please report any issues at the PrivacyMeter's repository: https://github.com/ostarov/PrivacyMeter
Safety
Risk impact
PrivacyMeter is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install PrivacyMeter if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
PrivacyMeter may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.
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