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Chrome Privacy Protection Extension

Whether, it’s Fire-Fox or Google Chrome or any other browser like IE and Opera, none of them comes with default privacy protection setting, when it comes to handling privacy online. But, they do offer Google chrome privacy protection extensions which can secure your browser privacy. So, talking about the privacy protection extensions, we will take a quick look over the Google Chrome extension.

Chrome Privacy Protection Extension List:

Web of Trust (WOT)

This chrome privacy protection extension has been recognized as one of the best and most efficient Chrome extension. In fact, every Chrome user has to have this WOT chrome privacy protection extension. Basically, it will judges every site based on four basic attributes namely, trustworthiness, vendor reliability, child safety and privacy. Any web site you open it will give you the rating of the above attributes. So, this way you can get to know which all web site is actually safe to browse.

Apart, from that you always have the option to advance your settings, and can opt more restricted browsing if needed. Other features of this plug-in are pop-up blocking and advanced mode which helps you to log in into the services.

Password Fail

If you want to have a safe browsing experience with the social networking sites, like Facebook, and Twitter you should definitely grab this chrome privacy protection extension. Many websites will stored our passwords in clear text. This is a practice which is unnecessary and dangerous. By using this chrome privacy extension, the icon will pop up when you visit a known site that violates good privacy practices.

There are two ways a website might violate good privacy practices in regards to user passwords: Email your password upon registration and/or email your password upon request.

The warning symbol represents sites that send password during registration, but not on request. The red X warning symbol means the website returns password by request. Websites with a key-lock was previously reported and have changed practices and is now verified to be improved.

Secure Profile

It’s not necessary always that your accounts gets compromised online only, sometimes it can be done manually also. Let’s say for instance that you have currently logged in to your Facebook account and have somehow forgotten to sign out from your machine. Meanwhile, one of your friend also tried to log in into the Facebook, however instead of opening his own account he found your. Now this is not a very good practice, still it keeps happening. Under such circumstances the Secure Profile Chrome extension encrypts and password-protects your Chrome profile data — including all those stored passwords and form auto-completes — so that anyone who gains access to your machine can’t also gain access to your online accounts.

Adblock

This extension helps you to get ad free browsing environment on your very own Google Chrome browser. This extension blocks almost all the ads, moreover the one that uses Flash, even before they are downloaded. So, this way you can have a healthy browsing experience even if your Internet connection is slow.

LastPass

If you have the bad tendency of forgetting your password, Last Pass the best option to have. LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.

LastPass captures passwords that other managers won’t including many AJAX forms, and allows you to make strong passwords easily. However, if you are wondering that Last pass will get the access to your password, let me tell you that your sensitive data is encrypted locally before upload so even LastPass.com cannot get access to it.

Do let us know in comments whether you like this post or not, and if you want we can also give you an update of same for the FireFox Browser as well.

Posted by ajit. Filed in Web Browser

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