Suspicious Site Reporter

Extension for reporting suspicious sites to Safe Browsing.
What is Suspicious Site Reporter?
The 'Suspicious Site Reporter' is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to aid in web safety. It enables users to report potentially dangerous sites to Google Safe Browsing. On identification of a possibly suspicious site, an informative icon appears, offering more insights about the site. By clicking 'Send Report', users can report these suspicious sites to Google for further evaluation, thus contributing to the global web security.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-02-12
Users: 127,792+
Rating: 2.81 (220)
Version: 1.23 (Last updated: 2023-07-26)
Creation date: 2020-05-05
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://safebrowsing.google.com/*
  • activeTab
  • history
  • safeBrowsingPrivate
  • tabs
Size: 946.18K

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Extension summary

NOTE If you are looking to show full URLs in the Chrome address bar, this extension is no longer needed. Instead, right-click the address bar and select "Always show full URLs" in the context menu.


Help protect web users by reporting suspicious sites you see in Chrome to Google Safe Browsing.

Google Safe Browsing helps protect over four billion devices every day from threats like phishing and malware by showing warnings to users when they attempt to navigate to dangerous sites or download dangerous files. Help Safe Browsing protect web users by reporting suspicious sites.

With the Suspicious Site Reporter extension, you’ll see an icon when you’re on a potentially suspicious site. Clicking the icon shows additional site information that may be considered when determining if the site is suspicious or not. Click Send Report to submit unsafe sites to Safe Browsing for further evaluation

Check out the source code at https://github.com/chromium/suspicious-site-reporter. For help with questions, suggestions, or problems, please visit https://github.com/chromium/suspicious-site-reporter/issues and feel free to file an issue.

By installing this item, you agree to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to report phishing sites
  • Helps report suspicious sites to Google Safe Browsing
  • Can report fake websites
Cons
  • Does not immediately block reported websites
  • Might track sites user visits
  • Users find it difficult to understand how to use the extension
  • Some users report it uses too much CPU/memory/storage
Most mentioned
  • Reporting phishing and scam sites
  • Ease of use
  • Desire for immediate blocking of reported sites
Recent reviews
Great tool to report phishing sites and the pages that lead to that site. No longer manual submitting and solving captchas
by Steven Algoet, 2023-12-06

yes they trying to say we violated their rules and our business page will be closed so we went along with it filling out the form for them then when we hit try to submit it fails no movement and a red page says beware you on a phishing site go back to safety
by placido rodriguez, 2023-12-01

Dear Google management team, I am reporting that there is a phishing site that is acting in the name of someone else's site. Please help to block the site link, because it has disturbed the original site owner.
by Rangga Setiawan, 2023-11-25
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Suspicious Site Reporter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Suspicious Site Reporter may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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