# Privacy Redirect (Search)

> Adds buttons to your browser that will open your current query in one of the anonymous search engines.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacysearch-](https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacysearch-)

## Overview

- **ID:** `privacysearch-`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Addons enjoyer
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-17
- **First published:** 2022-03-23
- **Size:** 1.12 MB
- **Data as of:** 2022-08-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacysearch-/)

## Description

The extension will help to query any information through search engines that respect your privacy and anonymity. Adds search engine buttons where you choose which one you want to make the current query through. The extension reads the query and opens it in the selected search engine.

 List of search engines available for use: 
<ul><li>DuckDuckGo </li><li>SearXNG </li><li>Lukol </li><li>Brave Search </li><li>Swisscows </li><li>MetaGer </li></ul>
Source code available <a href="https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/5e035ebfe78f1697f7006604da2e3c936e51626c607f1b81fa25940c33ae5647/https%3A//github.com/Erghel/Answerius" rel="nofollow">here</a>

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `www.lukol.com`
- `duckduckgo.com`
- `searx.be`
- `search.brave.com`
- `www.google.ru`
- `www.google.com`
- `swisscows.com`
- `yandex.ru`
- `metager.org`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/privacysearch-)