Compare Chrome extensions: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials vs HTTPS Everywhere
Stats | DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials | HTTPS Everywhere |
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User count | 5,000,000+ | 1,656,162+ |
Average rating | 4.28 | 4.46 |
Rating count | 2,027 | 4,278 |
Last updated | 2024-03-13 | 2022-09-30 |
Size | 2.84M | 1.77M |
Version | 2024.3.11 | 2022.5.24 |
Short description | |
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Simple and seamless privacy protection for your browser. | Encrypt the Web! Automatically use HTTPS security on many sites. |
Full summary | |
Protecting your privacy online is like protecting your home. Locking the front door won’t stop the most determined folks from getting inside, especially if you’ve left the back door and windows unlocked and an extra key under the doormat. That’s why we offer multiple types of privacy protection, all with the single purpose of better protecting your privacy in Chrome. With the press of a button, you get seamless protection from most 3rd-party trackers while you search and browse, access to tracking protections for emails you receive, and many more protections which aren't offered in most popular browsers by default. Together these privacy essentials make more privacy your default. FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
• Search with DuckDuckGo by Default — install, and we'll set your default search engine and homepage to DuckDuckGo Search so you can start your Internet searches without being tracked. ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS NOT AVAILABLE ON MOST BROWSERS
• Link Tracking Protection — helps stop companies from gathering your browsing history and other information via personal identifiers embedded in the links you click on. |
Note: Extension will sunset January 2023. Instructions on how to turn on HTTPS by default in Chrome here: https://eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-browser HTTPS Everywhere is an extension created by EFF and the Tor Project which automatically switches thousands of sites from insecure "http" to secure "https". It will protect you against many forms of surveillance and account hijacking, and some forms of censorship. The DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption list is publicly available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. International license. If you'd like to license the list for commercial use, please reach out to: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/contact-us/ Source code and bug tracker are available at https://github.com/efforg/https-everywhere. Please do not submit bug reports in the reviews! Changelog: https://www.eff.org/files/Changelog.txt
If HTTPS Everywhere causes a site to look weird or break, you can disable it for that site using the button in the address bar in the top right of your screen. HTTPS Everywhere for Chrome is currently in beta, and a few such issues are inevitable due to bugs in websites' HTTPS support. Also watch for a "shield" button in the address bar, which means that Chrome blocked insecure portions of the page. Sometimes pages will look weird with their insecure portions removed. Clicking on the shield will let you load them, but will reduce your security and privacy. Special thanks to Aaron Swartz, Mike Perry, Jay Weisskopf, Nick Semenkovich, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Yan Zhu, Vijay P., and William Budington for their work on the Chrome port. |