Privacy Search

Name: Privacy Search
Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Author: David L.

This extension force your browser to use a privacy-aware search engine.

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Whatever your browser's search engine options are, this extension intercept request to Bing, Google and Yahoo and redirects you to a privacy aware search engine as DuckDuckGo, Framabee, Oscobo, Qwant or Startpage.

Qwant is used by default, but you change select the one you prefer in extension's options.

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Add-on

By:

David L.

Daily users:

Rating:

2.75

(4)

Version:

0.1.0.6resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-26

Version code:

5731888

Creation date:

2018-09-06

Risk:

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
<all_urls>

Size:

106.28KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2025-07-08

Ranking

# 42,839 ▼ 191

Other rankings

#75 in privacy keyword 53 ▼ 1 #78 in data privacy keyword 29 ▼ 3

User reviews

I love the effort of trying to redirect Google searches to more privacy-oriented search engines, but this extension doesn't work in Private Browsing Mode.

by ar*****, 2020-02-25

Ça ne fonctionne pas sous Firefox, et sous chromium il ne propose qu'un seul moteur "Qwant". Pas top du tout...

by Jf*****, 2019-12-15

by Fi*****, 2019-05-05

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Privacy Search requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Privacy Search is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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