To meet the emerging challenges related to online data privacy and security, the market is crowded with the best security programs and antiviruses. Although. They are good enough, even Windows’ built-in program is good to control or monitor your machine’s security. Still, there are limitations regarding the program’s compatibility with the OS or with the computer’s efficiency.
To overcome the issues and be more productive, Google Chrome has some great security extensions and add-ons that can protect your online data privacy, malicious codes, unwanted ads, and other potentially unwanted programs with its special security features.
5 Best Google Chrome Security Extensions for Data Privacy:
To secure online data privacy using Google Chrome, I have elaborated the best collection of security extensions to manage and protect your personal as well as professional data more efficiently. You can easily find it from their official Google Chrome Extension webstore.
1- Malwarebytes browser guard:
Malwarebytes browser guard is a Chrome security extension that helps to block ads and trackers, scam sites, malware, along other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). After installation, it will give you an option to configure all the described options based on your choice or the nature of the browsing site.
If you want to check about particular site, then click on the Malwarebytes icon and then on the Let’s Go button, it will display complete info about that website, including how many ads/trackers or any malicious codes are blocked. If you trust a site and don’t want to block any type of content on it, then you can filter security in one click by the checkmark for Trust on this site. In this way, you can not only overload your browser with unwanted ads or other pop-ups but can also protect your saved data and passwords through this Google Chrome Extension.
2-uMatrix:
UMatrix is one of the specially designed extensions to block unwanted scripts, cookies, images, CSS, and others from loading and then executing on your device. Especially in the era of social media influence, when everyone wants to be informed in a few clicks than this browser extension, Google Chrome, helps a lot.
Besides filtering unwanted programs or code, it also gives an option to have good control over social media sites. So, being an administrator in an office, college, or other office area, you can restrict your employees, workers, or students from accessing certain sites to be more effective and productive.
3- Privacy Badger:
Privacy Badger is yet another safe Extension for Google Chrome to block web trackers. Most of the extensions manually filter to decide which sites to allow or block certain information. While this extension works a little differently, it will automatically block the site that tries to track your personal or security-based information.
The working of this extension is unique. When found that someone is trying to track, it will automatically send a Do NOT track signal to them, and if they ignore the message, then it will soon start blocking them. This extension will also keep a record of such sites and keep them blocked when they find the same tracker on other websites. You can also click the Privacy Badger icon to see the statistics of websites being blocked by this Chrome extension.
4-Click&Clean:
By using Google Chrome, you have the option of incognito mode to get rid having history, saved cookies, browser cache, or more. Click & Clean gives you all the options of Google Chrome by choosing to manually delete all of them or customize to choose automatically. The main focus of this extension is to ensure the secure use of Google Chrome.
Soon you close the browser, it will automatically start monitoring the browser by running a privacy checkup for unwanted program access, malicious code, tracking, saved login info, and delete them accordingly.
5-HTTPS Everywhere:
HTTPS Everywhere is one of the most trusted Chrome extensions to automatically redirect to the HTTPS version of this site (if it has one). This simple yet powerful action will enhance your website security.
Although Chrome itself has introduced this feature to ensure whether a site has enabled HTTPS or not, if not, it may give you a warning to proceed. The best thing about this extension is that it forces websites the use HTTPS if the site has this, if not, then this will block access to it.
So next time, your connectivity for that website will be more secure, reliable, and track-free due to the forced implementation of encryption on your connection.
Hope so, the above elaborated Google Chrome Security will help you to protect your data by enhancing your privacy while browsing using Google Chrome.