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