Is Keyword Surfer safe to install?

The facts we can check

No score. A single number would compress incomparable things and imply we had weighed them: an ad blocker needs every page and a theme needs nothing, and one figure would be wrong about both.

Site access

Specific sites only: 154 match patterns.

Browser permissions

5 permissions

Privacy policy

Published in the store listing

Manifest version

V3, the current extension platform

Publisher record

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Rated by

1k people, average 4.2

What it can reach

Specific sites only: 154 match patterns.

• https://www.google.ae/*
• https://www.google.am/*
• https://www.google.as/*
• https://www.google.at/*
• https://www.google.az/*
• https://www.google.ba/*
• https://www.google.be/*
• https://www.google.bg/*
• https://www.google.bi/*
• https://www.google.bs/*
• https://www.google.ca/*
• https://www.google.cd/*
• and 142 more

• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
• Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest
• Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
• Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
• Store data in your browser storage

Has it asked for more over time?

This is the question a permission list on its own cannot answer. An extension that shipped narrow and widened later is a different proposition from one that always asked for the same thing.

The permissions this extension requests have not changed since we started watching it.

Who publishes it

Surfer. This listing has been in the store since 2019-10-25 and was last updated on 2026-01-29.