What is Privacy Guardr?

Privacy Guardr is a Chrome extension developed by https://kyle.graehl.org, and its main feature is "An extension to help you make informed decisions about the privacy implications of your installed extensions".

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Download Privacy Guardr Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

Privacy Guardr (formely Privacy Guard) helps you identify extensions and apps that are a privacy risk. Protect yourself against malware and nefarious extensions that seek to compromise your browsing safely.

Privacy guard has many features to protect you from malware and unseemly applications. It is an open source project: https://github.com/kzahel/privacy-guard-extension

Update Feb 29 2020
- Remove unused notification permission

Update Dec 1 2014
- Changed name of app due to trademark conflict with privacyguard.com (credit monitoring service)

- Check permissions of installed extensions
- See extensions and apps with high risk permissions
- (soon) Identify changes to app publisher

Sept 12, 2014 - version 0.1.4
- Updated to detect "high risk" apps.

Jan 21, 2014 - First released. I wrote this app because I couldn't find anything else like it in the chrome web store and there's been a lot of buzz about chrome extension malware recently. I have some ideas for further improvements to make to this app, but welcome your feedback!

Extension Basic Information

Name	Privacy Guardr
ID	edcajbacgdcdeecojhlllbgingbjfbmk
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-guardr/edcajbacgdcdeecojhlllbgingbjfbmk
Description	An extension to help you make informed decisions about the privacy implications of your installed extensions
File Size	410 KB
Installation Count	1,037
Current Version	0.1.7
Last Updated	2020-03-02
Publish Date	2020-03-02
Rating	4.44/5 Total 16 Ratings
Developer	https://kyle.graehl.org
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/kzahel/privacy-guard-extension
Privacy Policy Page URL	http://graehlarts.com/privacy.html
Supported Languages	en-US
manifest.json
{ "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx", "name": "Privacy Guardr", "short_name": "Privacy Guardr", "description": "An extension to help you make informed decisions about the privacy implications of your installed extensions", "author": "Kyle Graehl", "version": "0.1.7", "manifest_version": 2, "offline_enabled": true, "minimum_chrome_version": "8", "permissions": [ "management", "https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/" ], "optional_permissions": [], "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'", "background": { "scripts": [ "background.js" ], "persistent": false }, "options_page": "options.html", "browser_action": { "default_popup": "index.html", "default_icon": { "19": "icons\/privacy-guard-19.png" }, "default_title": "Privacy Advisor" }, "icons": { "19": "icons\/privacy-guard-19.png", "48": "icons\/privacy-guard-48.png", "96": "icons\/privacy-guard-96.png", "128": "icons\/privacy-guard-128.png", "256": "icons\/privacy-guard-256.png", "512": "icons\/privacy-guard-512.png" } }