Privacy Guardr

An extension to help you make informed decisions about the privacy implications of your installed extensions

What is Privacy Guardr?

Privacy Guardr is a dynamic tool designed to help users navigate the often risky chrome extensions and apps. It does so by providing useful insights about installed extensions, specifically highlighting those with high-risk permissions. Applications seek various permissions and some of these can compromise your browsing safety. Privacy Guardr's objective is to protect users from such threats, including malware and untrustworthy applications. It is an open-source project, consistently updated for optimal performance.

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By: https://kyle.graehl.org

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.44 (16)

Version: 0.1.7 (Last updated: 2020-03-02)

Creation date: 2020-03-02

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

management
https://chrome.google.com/

Size: 419.84K

Email: gr*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 24114 ▼ 207

Other rankings

#552 in Accessibility ▼ 1 #46 in privacy keyword 54 ▼ 9 #133 in identify keyword 51 ▼ 21

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Summary

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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

User reviews

What a relief! Finally I am not spied on!

Andrew Gree, 2016-01-14

Does exactly what it says it does. Those idiots that give it one star can't read.

botmtl, 2015-05-28

Well it warns me what may be a high risk harmful extensions! Not useful for what I was looking for.

Justin Cram, 2015-03-17

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Safety

Risk impact

Privacy Guardr may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.