Hide My Search - A Private Search Engine

Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Hide My Search, a privacy-focused search engine.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2021-08-10
Users: 528
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2020-07-01)
Creation date: 2020-07-01
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • webRequest
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • storage
  • tabs
  • webNavigation
  • contextMenus
Size: 869.38K
Price: Free

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Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Hide My Search, a privacy-focused search engine.

The Hide My Search extension expires your searches from your local browser history and encrypts your search terms between your computer and hidemyhistory.co. Searches are intercepted, encrypted locally, and redirected to our privacy-enhanced search engine.This extension will add custom web search from your new tab.

  1. Hide My Search checks the URL of each website you visit (this data is not logged or stored anywhere)
  2. For your privacy, Hide My Search intercepts the requests if it's on our list of sites
  3. Hide My Search encrypts your search locally using industry standard encryption
  4. Your locally encrypted search term is securely transmitted to our servers
  5. To provide you with the most relevant results possible, we then decrypt your search term and securely request results from our search & content partners
  6. We aggregate the most relevant results and securely display them to you

For added security, your local browsing history for any search we protect expires and cannot be viewed after 30 minutes of inactivity.

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Risk impact

Hide My Search - A Private Search Engine requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Hide My Search - A Private Search Engine may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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