Is Gone Secure Browsing safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data:

• Personally identifiable information such as name, address, email address or age
• Financial and payment information such as transactions, card numbers or credit history
• Location such as region, IP address or GPS coordinates
• Web history the list of pages you visit
• User activity such as clicks, scrolling, keystrokes or network monitoring

The developer also certifies that your data is not sold to third parties outside approved uses, not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core function, and not used to decide creditworthiness or lending.

The listing links to a privacy policy.

This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

What Chrome asks you to allow

When you add it, Chrome asks you to allow it to:

• Read and change all your data on all websites
• Block content on any page
• Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices
• Change your settings that control websites' access to features such as cookies, JavaScript, plugins, geolocation, microphone, camera etc.
• Display notifications

Derived from the manifest by Chrome's documented rules; the dialog's exact wording depends on your Chrome version and language. Chrome asks again if an update requests more.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. What access to every site means

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
• Read and change your browsing history history
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs

Worth knowing

• Change what sites are allowed to do contentSettings
• Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
• See which of its blocking rules matched declarativeNetRequestFeedback

Routine for an extension

• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
• Show you notifications notifications
• Store data in your browser storage
• Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage

How usual this is for its category

In Productivity · Workflow, 19% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to every site.

The typical extension there declares 3 browser permissions; this one declares 11 browser permissions.

• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access (cookies): 6% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Read and change your browsing history (history): 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 33% of extensions in this category ask for it.

Counted over the live extensions of the same category after our latest full pass of the store. A share is context, not a verdict: what is normal depends on what the extension is for.

Who uses it and how it is kept up

117 users

• Not updated in the store for over a year: the last update was on 2023-01-29.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Featured The store's badge for extensions that follow its recommended practices for Chrome extensions.

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

AdGone Ad-Blocker, who publishes 3 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2022-11-22 and was last updated on 2023-01-29.

Similar extensions that ask for less

Listings close to this one in what they say they do, which declare less reach. Less reach is not a verdict on either: compare what each needs for the job.

1. SafeNet No site access · 1 permission 107 users
2. Site Shield Access to specific sites only · 2 permissions, 1 site pattern 1 users (last published figure)
3. BrowserShield - AI Agentic Web Security Access to every site · 7 permissions, 1 site pattern 80 users ★ 5.0

How to check or remove it in Chrome

1. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and find the extension in the list.
2. Open its details. The site access setting shows where it can run; set it to run only on click and it reaches a page only after you press its icon.
3. To uninstall it, choose Remove on the same page.

Questions people ask

What can Gone Secure Browsing access?

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. It declares 11 browser permissions.

What data does Gone Secure Browsing collect?

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data: Personally identifiable information, Financial and payment information, Location, Web history, User activity. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has Gone Secure Browsing asked for more permissions over time?

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

Does Gone Secure Browsing publish a privacy policy?

Yes, the store listing links to a privacy policy.