Hide My History - A Private History Engine

Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Hide My History, a privacy-focused search engine.

Hide My History: Secure your Search & Browsing Privacy

Hide My History - A Private History Engine is a Chrome extension ensuring search privacy. It redirects and encrypts search queries to a secure engine, preventing tracking and data retention. The extension secures your terms locally, offers encrypted URLs that expire, and shields from ISP and local snooping, making private browsing straightforward and trustworthy.

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Extension stats

By: https://hidemyhistory.co

Users: 200,000+

Rating: 3.50

(4)

Version: 2.0.1.1 (Last updated: 2021-09-10)

Creation date: 2021-09-10

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
tabs
webNavigation
contextMenus
management
cookies
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 158.72K

Email: su*****@hidemyhistory.co

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 1,366 ▲ 88

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Hide My History - A Private History Engine (v1.3.0.0)

1,621+ 5.00

(1)

User reviews

DON'T INSTALL, THIS IS A BROWSER HIJACKER Here is what my ISP has for this site. https://block.charter-prod.hosted.cujo.io/warn.html?url=http://www.hidemyhistory.co/&token=bced8f03 Suspicious Site Blocked This site was blocked because it may contain unsafe content that can harm your device or compromise your personal info. Managing Security Shield Residential customers can use My Spectrum App Business customers can use Spectrumbusiness.net

Terra Gaines, 2024-02-16

bueno

Jacky Ortiz, 2021-03-22

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hide My History - A Private History Engine requires a lot of 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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We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Hide My History - A Private History Engine. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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