Privacy Crawler

Crawls a website for cookies and fingerprinting

Privacy Crawler - Chrome Extension

Privacy Crawler is a Chrome extension that recursively follows links on websites to generate reports on cookies, including domains, expiry times, and values. It also identifies JavaScript that may be used for browser fingerprinting. This extension deletes all cookies and patches the JavaScript environment for improved performance. It is recommended to use in incognito mode while crawling websites.

Extension stats

By: privacy-crawler

Users: 336

Version: 0.7 (Last updated: 2018-06-10)

Creation date: 2018-06-10

Permissions:

cookies
downloads
tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 30.45K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 47,251 ▼ 94

Other rankings

#7746 in Developer Tools ▲ 111 #133 in privacy keyword 53 ▼ 51 #229 in javascript keyword 45 ▲ 34 #285 in environment keyword 15 ▲

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Works great for research.

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Abraham, 2020-07-20

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Privacy Crawler requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Privacy Crawler. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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