Swisscows

Adds Swisscows as the default search engine in your browser.

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Swisscows is a privacy-focused Chrome extension that sets Swisscows as your default search engine, ensuring a secure, anonymous, and surveillance-free online experience. This search engine does not save or track your personal data, creating no personal profiles and anonymizing all queries after seven days. Hosted securely in their own data centers located in the Swiss Alps, Swisscows guarantees high data integrity without using third-party cloud providers.

With Swisscows, users benefit from enhanced privacy with no monitoring or data storage, making it an efficient alternative for those who value their online anonymity. The extension is ideal for users seeking to avoid traditional data tracking and want a trustworthy, privacy-first search experience.

Add-on

By:: Swisscows AG
Daily users:: 10,888 -64
Rating:: 4.68

(228) 1 new ratings
Version:: 1.4 Last updated: 2021-02-22
Version code:: 5185213
Creation date:: 2019-02-27
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:: 19.18KB
URLs:: Website
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Firefox Browser Add-ons
Data ingested on:: 2025-07-13

Ranking

# 738 ▼ 5

Other rankings

#83 in Search Tools ▲ 1 #128 in engine keyword 13 #171 in business keyword 17 ▼ 2 #188 in topic keyword 2 #215 in organization keyword 5 ▼ 4

Other platforms

Swisscows (v2.0.3)

10,000 4.29

(38)

Swisscows Private Search (v2.0.7)

132,172 4.23

(1,779)

Swisscows (v2.0.3)

9,921 4.50

(11)

User reviews

Users appreciate Swisscows for effectively helping them find desired information and as a trustworthy alternative to spyware-laden options. However, several users mention the shift from a free service to a subscription model, which restricts access without payment.

Pros

Effectively helps users find what they are searching for
Considered a good alternative to spyware-heavy programs

Cons

Recently changed from free to subscription-based, limiting free usage

Recent reviews

by DU*****, 2025-07-12

Endlich findet man wieder das, was man gesucht hat !!!

by Ha*****, 2025-06-08

by Se*****, 2025-05-22

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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.

Swisscows requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Can change search providers, which could redirect searches to malicious sites, posing moderate risk.

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.

Swisscows has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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