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Privacy Bar

by Francisco Ruiz · Communication
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

PRIVACY BAR: LOCAL ENCRYPTION & SECURITY SUITE Your data. Your device. Nobody else. Privacy Bar is a full encryption and privacy…

Users
15
0 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#168K
#140K among extensions
Version
1.0.4
updated 5 Aug 2026

Users

monthly, 5 months
1815May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
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Ratings count

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001May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Privacy Bar

PRIVACY BAR: LOCAL ENCRYPTION & SECURITY SUITE Your data. Your device. Nobody else. Privacy Bar is a full encryption and privacy toolkit that runs entirely inside your browser — no servers, no accounts, no cloud sync. Encrypt messages, hide data in images, generate passwords, and sanitize links, all without a single byte ever leaving your machine. Built on one rule: if it's sensitive, it never touches a server. Everything happens locally. Nothing is stored unencrypted. Your Master Key is never saved anywhere — it lives in memory for five minutes, then a mandatory Security Auto-Wipe erases it. FREE FOREVER • Password Engine (No Vault) Password managers store your secrets in a database — which means there's a database to steal. Privacy Bar generates your passwords on the fly from your Master Key instead of storing them. No vault, no file to breach, no sync target for an attacker. • Hashili Check A short, human-readable phrase that confirms you typed your Master Key correctly — without ever displaying or transmitting the key itself. • Lock & Key System Trade "Locks" (public keys) with contacts for asymmetric encryption. Only the matching Master Key can open what's sent — no more emailing plaintext passwords and hoping for the best. • Digital Camo (Steganography) Embed encrypted data invisibly inside ordinary JPEG or PNG images. To anyone else, it's just a photo. PRIVACY BAR PRO • Post-Quantum Ready Uses NIST-standardized ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key encapsulation, so today's encrypted data stays protected against tomorrow's quantum computers. • Pad Mode Generate a true one-time pad from a file's entropy — the only encryption method with a mathematical security proof, when used correctly (one pad, one message, never reused). A high-performance streaming engine handles multi-gigabyte files without choking. • Read-Once Messages that can be decrypted exactly one time. Once read, the keys are destroyed — nothing left behind for forensic recovery. • Hidden Message Slip an extra 100 bytes of hidden data into any output, for situations that call for plausible deniability. • Remote Sanitizer Right-click any link to open it in a sandboxed Reader Mode that strips scripts and tracking metadata before the page ever loads in your browser. BUILT FOR Journalists & Activists — Smuggle documents inside ordinary social photos with LSB embedding. Use Read-Once for tips that need to leave zero digital trail. Professionals — Send confidential contracts over standard email without your provider's servers ever seeing the plaintext. Researchers & Academics — Keep encrypted, site-specific notes in the sidebar. Your intellectual property never leaves your machine. WHY TRUST PRIVACY BAR • Zero-Knowledge — We can't see your keys or your data, because they never reach us. There's no "us" in the loop. • Permission-Light — Built on Chrome's activeTab model. Privacy Bar only sees a page's data when you click the extension — not before, not in the background. • Source Available — Read the actual logic yourself, in your browser or on GitHub. No blind trust required. • PolyCrypt — A manual pencil-and-paper cipher included for the truly air-gapped: works even if every computer you own is gone. TECHNICAL SPECS Algorithms: ECC (Curve25519 / Ed25519), NaCl, ML-KEM (post-quantum), PolyCrypt Architecture: 100% client-side. Zero external API calls, zero telemetry. Privacy is not a victimless crime. It is a right. Claim yours with Privacy Bar. Following is the SHA256 hash of the index.html file for the mobile version of Privacy Bar, available from https://privacybar.net/mobile. Here's the hash: 82b831a9a9450989e7d8a9169e17714c0ab061d17eb8544d74547cef1fe1acd8

Growth

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Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Privacy Bar appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
data privacy#56+20

Version history

3 versions recorded
1.0.411 Jun 2026
1.0.32 Jun 2026
1.0.214 May 2026

Details

Category
Communication
First seen
14 May 2026
Size
262 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
privacybar.net
Support
privacybar.net
Extension ID
objpfdibjogbdpjjpomnoaflkgdeaanb

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 0, likelihood 3
Permissions
sidePanelstoragealarmsactiveTabscriptingdeclarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

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