Best Privacy & Security Chrome extensions

Privacy & Security is ad and tracker blockers, VPNs, antivirus guards and enterprise access tools, the category users trust most and scrutinise hardest.

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McAfee® WebAdvisorMost used, ≈161M users

Active extensions: About 5,400
Typical rating (10 or more ratings): 4.8 / 5
Reach 10,000 users: 5.4%
First listed in the past year: About 7 in 10

These numbers update on their own as we re-check the store.

What the Privacy & Security category looks like

This is a consolidated, high-trust category under constant new pressure: the top ten hold about 7 in 10 of users (one antivirus guard alone carries over 160M), yet roughly 7 in 10 listings were first published in the past year, more churn than anywhere else, as new blockers and VPNs pour in. The usable tier is the best-rated on the store, because here users abandon anything that feels unsafe instantly. Breaking in is a credibility game: a narrow, transparently-built blocker or privacy tool can climb, but reputation is the entire moat.

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The 10 most-used Privacy & Security extensions

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store. “Place in category” is each extension’s position by users among the Privacy & Security extensions we track.