Be protected with PrivacyGuard.

Install PrivacyGuard

1. Click the download button above. Open your Downloads folder and double-click the ZIP file to extract it.
2. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions. Turn on Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked and select the extracted PrivacyGuard folder. Choose the folder that contains manifest.json.

You only need to install it once. To update, download and extract the latest ZIP, then click Reload on the PrivacyGuard card in Chrome extensions.

What it does

• Sensitive-information protection: Flags common private details, such as email addresses, phone numbers, possible payment-card numbers, and recognizable keys or tokens, before supported forms are submitted.
• Gmail compose protection: Checks supported Gmail message content before sending. Gmail changes over time, so this protection is best-effort.
• Website risk rating: Checks website addresses for suspicious patterns and inspects page links, forms, downloads, redirects, embedded frames, and external resources for warning signs.
• Trusted-domain recognition: Recognizes listed official brand domains and their genuine subdomains. A trusted-domain match is not a guarantee that every page or account is safe.
• Camera alerts: Notifies you when a supported page starts a camera stream and lets you block or restore that site's camera permission.
• Live privacy dashboard: Shows detected camera activity and available camera, microphone, and location permission states for the current tab.
• Cookie cleaner: Lets you remove a limited list of likely analytics and advertising cookies from the current website. It leaves ordinary login cookies alone.
• Scam conversation checker: Scans visible page text on demand for 4,000 ranked single-word entries, grouped from clear scam signals to weaker clues. The entries include 160 distinct words; a match is a clue, not proof of a scam.

Your privacy

PrivacyGuard is designed to run locally in your browser. It does not require an account or send your browsing history, form contents, camera feed, microphone audio or location coordinates to a PrivacyGuard server. Its checks are limited and cannot guarantee that a website is safe or detect every possible privacy risk. Always review Chrome's permission prompts and settings.