Stealth Search

Name: Stealth Search
Author: Sonia Cuevas

Stay stealthy with StealthSearch. This comprehensive extension prevents Google from tracking your searches, maintaining your search history's confidentiality.

This add-on was removed from Firefox Browser Add-ons on 2024-03-31

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StealthSearch is a comprehensive browser extension that prioritizes your online privacy. By preventing tracking cookies from being sent to Google, it ensures that Google cannot link your searches to your account or create a search history. As a result, you won't receive customized search results, promoting unbiased search experiences. With StealthSearch active, Google will perceive you as logged out of your account during searches (observe the "Sign in" button at the top right).

However, you will remain logged in on other Google services like YouTube or Gmail. To manage your search settings effectively, you can allow the "Search Preferences Cookie" in the add-on settings. By default, this preferences-cookie is blocked, preserving your search privacy.

It is crucial to note that while StealthSearch effectively blocks tracking cookies, there are other tracking methods, such as IP addresses or browser fingerprints, that this add-on cannot protect against.

Add-on

By:

Sonia Cuevas

Daily users:

Version:

1.1.2 Last updated: 2023-08-25

Creation date:

2023-08-25

Risk:

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
storage
*://*.google.com/*
*://*.google.ad/*
*://*.google.ae/*
*://*.google.com.af/*
*://*.google.com.ag/*
*://*.google.com.ai/*
*://*.google.al/*

Size:

32.16KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2024-03-31

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.

Stealth Search requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Browser Add-ons, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. 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 Firefox add-on.

Stealth Search may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.