Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Hide My Search, a privacy-focused search engine.
The Hide My Search extension expires your searches from your local browser history and encrypts your search terms between your computer and hidemyhistory.co. Searches are intercepted, encrypted locally, and redirected to our privacy-enhanced search engine. This extension will add custom web search from your new tab.
To Install CLICK “CONTINUE”
By clicking "Continue", you will be redirected to the Chrome Web Services Store and agree to add out extension, which will serve you relevant advertising. Learn more by reading our Terms & Conditions & Privacy Policy
How it Works
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Hide My Search checks the URL of each website you visit. ( this data is not logged or stored anywhere )
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For your privacy, Hide My Search intercepts the requests if it's on our list of sites.
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Hide My Search encrypts your search locally using industry standard encryption.
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Your locally encrypted search term is securely transmitted to our servers.
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To provide you with the most relevant results possible, we then decrypt your search term and securely request results from our search & content partners.
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We aggregate the most relevant results and securely display them to you.
For added security, your local browsing history for any search we protect expires and cannot be viewed after 30 minutes of inactivity.
What makes Hide My Search a good private search engine for Chrome?
- Hide My Search doesn't track your search history in any user identifiable way.
- Hide My Search does not retain server logs.
- Hide My Search helps prevent your ISP from tracking your search terms.
- Hide My Search helps hide your search history on your device.
What is Hide My Search Used for?
Hide My Search is a search engine, so it's used to find websites and information on the internet. It's a private search engine so people rely on Hide My Search for sensitive searches that they don't want other people to know about. People also use Hide My Search to avoid seeing ads everywhere they go for something they've searched for recently.
To Install CLICK “CONTINUE”
By clicking "Continue", you will be redirected to the Chrome Web Services Store and agree to add out extension, which will serve you relevant advertising. Learn more by reading our Terms & Conditions & Privacy Policy
Permissions We Request:
activeTab
tabs
webNavigation
We use these permissions to protect information you enter into forms on the sites we protect you on. Some sites use keystroke logging to track any words you enter into a search field. These permissions allow us to block those logs and let you know which fields are safe, by displaying a tooltip.
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
privacy
We use these permissions to block the searches that you don't want to be tracked, and allows us to redirect those searches to our secure search engine so you can still find the information and the search results you're looking for.
storage
cookies
We use these permissions to store and clear the encryption keys that we use to ensure that your searches are secure and expire within 30 minutes of your final search.
contextMenus
management
These permissions let us give you the browser interface to control our product and its settings. You can use the context menu to disable, uninstall, and reactivate our extension as needed.
http://*/*
https://*/*
These give us permission to protect you throughout the internet.
Without these permissions we wouldn't be able to block things like background search logging and sneaky forms that track you from one website to another.
To Install CLICK “CONTINUE”
By clicking "Continue", you will be redirected to the Chrome Web Services Store and agree to add out extension, which will serve you relevant advertising. Learn more by reading our Terms & Conditions & Privacy Policy