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Qwant - Search engine and tracker blocker

Chrome extension by Qwant · Productivity · Tools

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A Chrome extension in Productivity · Tools with 200 000 users, a widely installed extension.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 4 screenshots

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Users
200 000
Rating
4.4 (294 ratings)
Users, last 13 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
8.1.4
Updated in the store
2025-11-12
Published
2014-02-14
Manifest
V3
Browser access
4 permissions

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 01.09
200k · 3 readings
  1. 2026-09-01200k
  2. 2026-09-07200k
  3. 2026-09-13200k
Rating
-0.011 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.395-4.406 · 3 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews293rating4.406
  2. 2026-09-07reviews294rating4.395
  3. 2026-09-13reviews294rating4.395
Users
unchanged since 01.09
200k · 3 readings
  1. 2026-09-01200k
  2. 2026-09-07200k
  3. 2026-09-13200k
Rating
-0.011 since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.395-4.406 · 3 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews293rating4.406
  2. 2026-09-07reviews294rating4.395
  3. 2026-09-13reviews294rating4.395

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
  • See when you navigate between pages webNavigation
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  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

Qwant publishes 2 listings we track, 300k users between them. Listed website: qwant.com.

  1. Qwant - Search engine Qwant · Productivity · Tools · published 2022-08-27 100k users ★ 4.3

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Startpage — Private Search Engine Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 200k users ★ 3.9
  2. Qwant - Search engine Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 100k users ★ 4.3
  3. MyPrivateSearch Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 45 users
  4. DuckDuckGo No-AI Search Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 40k users ★ 4.5
  5. Privacy Origin Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 6 users

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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