Norton Safe Search Enhanced

#3.3 / 90 rate

Norton Safe Search Enhanced

200,000 users

2020-06-27

https://searchsafe.nor...

DL-BPChromeExt2@norton...

Extension Information

5 star
36%
4 star
10%
3 star
8%
2 star
6%
1 star
40%

Supported Languages

Permissions

Hot Permissions

Description

Search safely online by enabling Norton Safe Search Enhanced as your default search provider for maximum protection on Chrome.

Norton Safe Search Enhanced updates your Chrome's default search provider, home page, and new tab page settings for complete protection.

Help protect yourself from phishing sites, malware distribution sites, and other potentially risky sites while you search, shop, or browse online.

Norton Safe Search Enhanced provides you added peace of mind from online threats by:

1.Providing you with safety ratings on search results
2.Blocking malicious sites which may be used for phishing or malware distribution
3. Letting you know which shopping sites are safe

---

This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension.

“Read and change all your data on the websites you visit”
Shown for permissions needed for detecting online risks on all types of pages you browse.

“Read your browsing history”
Shown for permissions needed for:
- displaying a block page when risky content is detected.
- displaying site safety rating information reliably during tab manipulations by Chrome or the user.

“Manage your downloads”
Shown for permission needed for removing malicious downloads.

“Change your search settings to: searchsafe.norton.com”
Shown for permissions needed for delivery of search results through the Norton Safe Search service.

“Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.”
Shown for permissions needed for changing the new tab and home page to Norton Safe Search.

“Display notifications”
Shown for permissions needed for showing alerts when important changes happen for protection activity or when authentication is required for certain features.

“New background app added
Norton Safe Search will launch at system startup and continue to run in the background, even once you've closed all other Google Chrome windows.”
Shown for permission used to keep the extension running in order to quicken startup times.

This extension also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome for performing certain functions within the extension:

“webRequest” and “webRequestBlocking” permissions
Needed for:
- accessing low-level data when browsing websites to help block certain threats.
- performing authentication for certain features.

“storage” permission
Used to store and retrieve settings data used by the extension.

---
By using this add-on, you agree to our License and Services Agreement (https://www.nortonlifelock.com/content/dam/nortonlifelock/pdfs/eulas/licensing-agreement/customer-agreement-en.pdf) and have read and acknowledge our Global Privacy Statement (https://www.nortonlifelock.com/us/en/privacy/global-privacy-statement/).

This add-on makes use of Google Analytics’s Measurement Protocol to transmit critical error and feature usage information to Google Analytics services. NortonLifeLock uses Google Analytics services to maintain and improve this add-on, but the services are not operated by NortonLifeLock.

If you do not consent to this data collection and usage, please do not install this add-on or remove it if it is already installed.

This add-on sets parameters that Google provides to obfuscate your IP address when processing Google Analytics. See more details here for our obligations to use Google Analytics, Google’s privacy practices, and Google's IP obfuscation support:

- https://developers.google.com/analytics/policy
- https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
- https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052

Copyright © 2021 NortonLifeLock Inc. All rights reserved. NortonLifeLock, the NortonLifeLock Logo, the Checkmark Logo, Norton, LifeLock, and the LockMan Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NortonLifeLock Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. Google Chrome is a trademark of Google, LLC. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Reviews

Andy Boyd
Andy Boyd

My wife accidentally installed this when I told her to install Norton Safe Web (which unlike this extension, is useful). She immediately could not search anymore, because she would get 3 pages of "sponsored links" before she got to what she searched for. Basically, TLDR. This extension is doing what it is trying to prevent, it is feeding you garbage pages you didn't search for, ads, for their sponsors to make money, to the point where it is useless. Basically doing what some malware does.

Nacho Arias
Nacho Arias

Antes no me interesaba saber si las páginas eran seguras o no, desde hace un tiempo cambié eso y esta extensión es simplemente maravillosa. Si la usas y te quedan dudas de si sirve o no, entrá a https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload y pega el link del página que quieras analizar.

Marcel Scholte
Marcel Scholte

The search results of Norton SafeSearch are cumbersome, apparently is not able to provide reliable results, not at all. Other applications run well, though Safesearch is not worth using.

Similar extensions

Norton Setup Help
Norton Setup Help

https://sy4norton.com

Norton Password Manager
Norton Password Manager

https://norton.com

Norton Family
Norton Family

NortonLifeLock Inc

Norton Coupons
Norton Coupons

NortonLifeLock Inc

Custom Chrome - Extension Manager
Custom Chrome - Extension Manager

Ciaran & Chris

Password Manager
Password Manager

bradevelop

Norton Safe Search
Norton Safe Search

https://norton.com

Trellix Endpoint Security Web Control
Trellix Endpoint Security Web Control

Trellix

Dr.Protect: Secure Search
Dr.Protect: Secure Search

https://drprotect.net

Sophos Chrome Security
Sophos Chrome Security

Sophos Limited

Ultra Safe Search
Ultra Safe Search

https://ultra-tab.com

Safe Search Engine
Safe Search Engine

https://www.safesearchengine.com