Keyboard Privacy

Prevents behavioral profiling by randomizing the rate at which characters reach the DOM.

Keyboard Privacy Chrome Extension - Ensuring Input Security

The 'Keyboard Privacy' extension for Chrome is an innovative tool designed to hinder attempts at behavioral profiling. It accomplishes this through randomizing the speed at which characters are acknowledged in the Document Object Model (DOM). This method effectively conceals your unique typing rhythm, a metric that can potentially be exploited by cyber threats for identification. This plugin is a result of research led by security experts Paul Moore and Per Thorsheim. Its up-to-date version adjusts to various input types, reflecting significant advances in the industry.

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By: Urity Group

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.09

(23)

Version: 2.7 (Last updated: 2019-11-01)

Creation date: 2019-10-30

Permissions:

tabs
activeTab
storage

Size: 65.06K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 18,858 ▼ 3

Other rankings

#3129 in Developer Tools ▲ 22 #1 in keyboard keyword 12 #14 in privacy keyword 75 ▲ 8 #229 in password-protected keyword 45 ▲ 27

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Enhances anonymity in online interactions
Works effectively for different dwell/delay settings
Does not significantly impact online experience
Interesting concept and functionality
Works on both Chrome and Firefox

Cons

Default settings can produce unreliable results
High dwell and gap settings may not seem effective
Conflicts with latency issues on slower connections
Needs more customization options like URL whitelist
Difficult to determine if the plugin is functioning well

Most mentioned

The performance and reliability of the dwell/gap settings
Need for a URL whitelist for improved functionality
Apparent issues with default settings for accuracy
General satisfaction with the extension's concept and performance
Experiences of slowdowns affecting profiling accuracy

User reviews

This seems to work @ 300ms on Keytrack but they were able to get high confidence @ 200ms for me. The Experimental port on Mozilla Addons does not work at all for me however, any chance you can finally port this to Firefox, now that they have a decent WebExtension API?

Sylvain, 2020-07-01

It's great stuff, super interesting.

A Google user, 2018-06-12

No, as of 2017 Nov, all the "biometric" can over come this tiny trick with over 90% confidence. Even 1000 dwell/delay would not help at all.

mytransceiver, 2017-11-20

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Keyboard Privacy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Keyboard Privacy. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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