Privacy Guardr
Privacy Guardr - Chrome Extension for Privacy Risk Analysis
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Privacy Guardr (formely Privacy Guard) helps you identify extensions and apps that are a privacy risk. Protect yourself against malware and nefarious extensions that seek to compromise your browsing safely.
Privacy guard has many features to protect you from malware and unseemly applications. It is an open source project: https://github.com/kzahel/privacy-guard-extension
Update Feb 29 2020
- Remove unused notification permission
Update Dec 1 2014
Changed name of app due to trademark conflict with privacyguard.com (credit monitoring service)
Check permissions of installed extensions
See extensions and apps with high risk permissions
(soon) Identify changes to app publisher
Sept 12, 2014 - version 0.1.4
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spammy, or outdated.- Does exactly what it says it does.
- Helps in identifying risky extensions.
- Provides a clear overview of permissions used by extensions.
- Does not provide any actual security.
- Only ranks risks based on permissions, without security details.
- Some users found it not useful for their needs.
- What a relief! Finally I am not spied on!
- Works as expected.
- Ok maybe I didn't read the description perfectly.
User reviews
Andrew Gree, 2016-01-14 
botmtl, 2015-05-28 
Justin Cram, 2015-03-17Extension safety
Risk impact
Privacy Guardr requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Privacy Guardr has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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