Privacy Tools by SecuryBrowse

Improve your Search privacy with SecuryBrowse

Privacy Tools by SecuryBrowse (formerly Privatize) is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your search privacy effectively. With a user-friendly and engaging dashboard, it offers rapid access to cookie and history cleanup as well as permission management.

Beyond simple cleanup, Privacy Tools analyzes your searches and visited websites to provide warnings against potential risks from uninformed browsing. It serves as a personal privacy assistant and a valuable educational tool for home or office users, helping to raise awareness about online threats. Reach out to privatize@securybrowse.com for support or inquiries.

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By:: https://securybrowse.com
Users:: 100,000+
Rating:: 4.03
(29)
Version:: 1.4.1.10233 (Last updated: 2024-06-19)
Creation date:: 2022-11-15
Risk:: Very high risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:: contextMenus
tabs
storage
cookies
webRequest
notifications
scripting
alarms
Host permissions:: <all_urls>
Size:: 287.74K
Email:: su*****@securybrowse.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 2,269 ▲ 26

User reviews

User reviews of Privacy Tools by SecuryBrowse are highly mixed. Some users praise it for blocking harmful websites, being easy to use, and helping organize team work, calling it excellent and fast. However, many others report serious issues: the extension installs without consent, hijacks and blocks Google search, mimics malware behavior, logs data, and is hard to uninstall, leading them to label it as malware and warn others to avoid it.

Pros

Blocks access to potentially harmful websites effectively.
Provides useful and organized information for small teams.
Easy to use and works fast.
Highly recommended by some users for its functionality.

Cons

Acts as malware or quasi-malware, hijacking search engines without user consent.
Difficult to uninstall or remove effects after uninstallation.
Installs without user permission through mimicked or misspelled websites.
Redirects search queries and logs data undesirably.

Recent reviews

This is malware. Sites that mimmic others will require this for download, such as the government site shop.commissaries.com misspelled as shop.commisaries.com. This is a search engine redirector and data logger.

Raen Gallup, 2023-11-04

This extension hijacked my search engine! It blocked google as my search engine.

Stacy Forsyth, 2023-08-18

block googled search, should agement google ad advise of potential site

Robert J. De Vizio, 2023-01-13

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Privacy Tools by SecuryBrowse requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Privacy Tools by SecuryBrowse is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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