Browsesafelysearch.com - How to remove

Browsesafelysearch.com is a site associated with the Browse Safely extension. You can find it on the Browsesafelyapp.com site and on the Chrome Web Store. Browse Safely offers to check the reputation of sites before you decide whether to visit them. But the extension, once installed, changes the browser’s default search engine to Browsesafelysearch.com, which is disliked by many users.

About Browsesafelysearch.com:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program.
Problems and issues with Browsesafelysearch.com	It restricts search engine settings, it tracks user data, such as search history, it may be advertised in a misleading way.
Alternatives to Browsesafelysearch.com	Reputable ad blockers, malicious site blockers, and other security extensions, anti-malware tools like .
How to remove Browsesafelysearch.com	Uninstall Browse Safely, check your default search engine settings.

What is Browsesafelysearch.com?

Browse Safely influences web search

Browsesafelysearch.com is a website while Browse Safely is a browser extension. They work together – the extension gets installed on your browser and opens the Browsesafelysearch.com site.

Browsesafelysearch.com offers to help users check the reputation of sites before visiting them. This reputation is based on the rankings on Web of Trust. This is supposed to help you avoid dangerous websites.

However, Browse Safely restricts what search engines you can set as your default. It only offers Yahoo, Bing, and Google. Browsesafelysearch.com is monetized with Yahoo search, so it presents that as the default search engine when Browse Safely is installed.

That would be fine, as long as Browsesafelysearch.com communicates this clearly to users. And this is mentioned in both the Privacy Policy and the description of the extension on the Chrome Web Store.

However, some users still complain that it looks as if Browse Safely hijacked their browser and forced them to use Yahoo search. It feels invasive and a little scary.

By the way, at the time of writing, every one of the reviews for Browse Safely is one star. And the reviews are very few (only 5) compared to the number of installations, which is shown as 100,000+.

It reads user data

It’s also worth mentioning that the Browsesafelysearch.com extension collects some user data:

• search queries,
• sites visited,
• location/IP.

It needs this data to manage search, but it only needs to do that in order to earn money. Some users might dislike the idea of letting a new page access data that is usually only between the user and their search engine.

Another thing that users complained about in the reviews is that they’d been advertised Browse Safely in a misleading way: by pop-up ads that give the impression that Browse Safely is required to be installed. This type of advertising is very common for browser hijackers – extensions that are unhelpful to users, but useful to their creators. For instance, extensions that show ads and track user data.

Alternatives to Browse Safely

If you want to avoid dangerous websites, there are some other ways to do this. You could use the WOT extension directly, although that extension has apparently started showing annoying pop-ups to users. There are many ad blockers and malicious site blockers that can help you stay safe. And anti-malware tools such as Malwarebytes can also help protect you from online threats, along with a good antivirus program.

It is important to use reputable apps and extensions. Keep in mind that commercial apps and extensions still make money somehow, even if they’re free. Find out how they’re monetized and whether you’re okay with that. Pay attention to other characteristics of the extensions to decide if they are trustworthy.

Something I noticed while browsing the Browsesafelysearch.com and Browsesafelyapp.com websites is that they’re very similar to Music Search for Chrome™, Movies Search for Chrome™, and related extensions. I can’t tell if they’re actually related, as these guys won’t give the name of their company in the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, or anywhere. That does not inspire confidence.

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How to remove Browsesafelysearch.com

It’s not that Browse Safely is a bad extension. But it seems like it’s possible that some users install it unintentionally. That is sometimes used as a reason to mark software as “potentially unwanted” – not malware, but something worth being careful of.

So, is Browse Safely safe? It’s not dangerous, so as long as you installed it knowingly and voluntarily, it’s fine. However, if you aren’t sure whether you need this extension, then you probably don’t.

If you want to keep using Browse Safely, that is fine. As long as you’re aware of the small issues with this extension.

However, Browsesafelysearch.com is not ideal for privacy and online safety. It has some features of a browser hijacker, so you might want to remove it and replace it with a less invasive browser add-on. Below are the instructions for uninstalling extensions.

Manually remove extensions

TopHow To remove Browsesafelysearch.com from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browsesafelysearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Browsesafelysearch.com from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browsesafelysearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Browsesafelysearch.com from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Browsesafelysearch.com related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browsesafelysearch.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.