Privacy Guardr
What is Privacy Guardr?
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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spammy, or outdated.- Helps identify high-risk harmful extensions
- Does what it claims to do
- Provides an overview of which extensions access specific permissions
- Assists in cleaning up unnecessary or risky extensions
- User-friendly interface for evaluating trustworthiness
- Does not provide actual security measures
- Only ranks risks without detailed security options
- Some users find it not useful for their needs
- Perceived as a waste of time by frustrated users
- Limited functionality as described by some reviews
- Does exactly what it says it does
- Warns about high-risk extensions
- Provides information on permissions
- Helps users clean up extensions
- Not useful for some users
Recent 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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