# Force Safe Search

> Force Safe Search turns on the safest search settings available on search engines such as Google, Reddit, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and more. Users cannot override the safe search settings enforced by this plug-in.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/forcesafesearch](https://chrome-stats.com/d/forcesafesearch)

## Overview

- **ID:** `forcesafesearch`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** haydentech
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 148
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 3.31 / 5 (13 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.6
- **Last updated:** 2019-06-20
- **First published:** 2017-01-27
- **Size:** 35 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/forcesafesearch/)
- **Website:** [http://haydentech.com](http://haydentech.com/)

## Description

Force Safe Search is a powerful Chrome extension designed to automatically enable the safest search settings across popular search platforms including Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, and more. Once activated, it ensures that Safe Search is locked on, preventing users from disabling or overriding these filters. This helps maintain a safe browsing environment by filtering out explicit and inappropriate content effectively.

Ideal for parents, schools, and organizations looking to control their internet content exposure, Force Safe Search simplifies the process of enforcing strict content restrictions seamlessly across multiple search engines and platforms. Its easy-to-use interface guarantees consistent and reliable safe search enforcement without additional configuration from the user.

## Rankings

- #9,542 — Overall
- #11 — force
- #11 — safe
- #75 — override
- #157 — yahoo
- #205 — search box

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `cookies`
- `nativeMessaging`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/forcesafesearch)