Private Surfing

Name: Private Surfing
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Billy Beane

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Private Surfing is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your internet privacy and security. By routing your connections through remote proxy servers, it hides your actual IP address, making your browsing fully anonymous. This not only protects your identity online but also allows you to bypass censorship and access websites that might be blocked in your region.

The extension also helps you unblock geo-restricted content, such as videos unavailable in your country, by rerouting your connection through locations where the content is accessible. Users can easily enter a website address into the input field and adjust settings for optimal performance, ensuring smooth and secure browsing every time.

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Version:

1.1 Last updated: 2017-08-29

Creation date:

2017-08-29

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Permissions:

tabs

Size:

160.00KB

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-12

Ranking

# 80,430 ▼ 1,805

Other rankings

#8309 in Tools ▼ 114 #286 in internet keyword 61 ▼ 45

Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Private Surfing requires a few sensitive permissions. 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.

Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension.

Private Surfing is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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