Purge Your Watch History - How to remove

Purge Your Watch History is a potentially unwanted browser extension. It automatically deletes the user’s browsing history. Unfortunately, it also tracks the browsing habits of its users and uses that information for marketing purposes. While it is not directly harmful or dangerous, it ought to be avoided by those who care about their online privacy.

About Purge Your Watch History:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Purge Your Watch History	It may have been installed thanks to deceptive ads, it doesn’t respect the user’s privacy.
Alternatives	Private browsing windows offered by web browsers.
How to remove Purge Your Watch History	Scan your computer with Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and other scanners, remove malware and unwanted browser extensions.

Is Purge Your Watch History safe?

History-deleting extension

Purgewatchhistory.com is the website that initiates the installation of Purge Your Watch History, a browser extension.

Purge Your Watch History is a browser add-on that deletes your history upon closing the browser. It could be useful for those who share their web browser with other people and want to delete all traces of their histories. It is extremely basic in comparison to other history-deleting extensions.

I would recommend using private browsing windows to keep your history private from the people with who you share your computer.

Adware

In addition to deleting your history, Purge Your Watch History may inject ads into your search results.

Purge Your Watch History checks if you installed it thanks to an advertisement campaign. If you did, it may “enhance” your search results a bit.

It takes your search query and sends it off to Purgewatchhistory.com. It immediately loads Google.com with the results for that query. However, in theory, it could open any site it wanted to. This could result in unexpected pop-ups and redirects in your web browser.

For more insight, we can check Purge Your Watch History’s privacy policy:

1. Purgewatchhistory.com may collect your IP and location, hardware information, ad identifiers, which ads you viewed, which ads you clicked on, and whether you bought any of the products that were advertised to you.
2. Purgewatchhistory.com may combine your information from multiple devices. It may also use info collected about you by third parties (other sites).
3. This information is used to deliver you personalized content, help advertisers reach you, and to conduct research.

This privacy policy heavily focuses on advertising, which is a bit funny considering that Purge Your Watch History promises to help protect your privacy.

Anti-privacy extension

When Purge Your Watch History is installed, it asks to access your data on all the webpages that you visit. Not only does it get the ability to log your information, but also to inject content into your webpages. It doesn’t do it right now, but just keep it in mind that it can.

Overall, Purge Your Watch History is not dangerous. At worst, it collects some data about you, sells it to other companies, and uses it to help advertisers who want to track people’s shopping habits.

But it’s terrible for your online privacy.

Deceptively installed

Purge Your Watch History is advertised on video streaming sites and, often, porn sites. It’s probably meant to appeal to people who, understandably, want to hide their adult entertainment habits from the other members of their household.

I found references that Purge Your Watch History uses the Download Ready template for some of its ads. This could cause accidental installations. I mean, this is basically a fake download button. It lies to people about them having to install an extension to view a video or download a file.

Purge Your Watch History seems to be closely related to History Wipe Clean, a very similar potentially unwanted “privacy” add-on.

How to remove Purge Your Watch History

You can remove Purge Your Watch History from the extensions page in your browser, like described below.

If you installed Purge Your Watch History without meaning to, it’s important to scan your computer with an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. If any malware is found, remove it.

Do not trust it when sites tell you to install a browser extension or download a program just to view site content. Make sure that it’s truly required by the site. A lot of malicious sites spread malware by convincing visitors that they’re required to download the offered files.

As for hiding your browsing history, I believe that using private windows is much more safe and far less disruptive. You can even force your browser to start in private mode by default.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Purge Your Watch History from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Purge Your Watch History. Click on the trash bin icon next to Purge Your Watch History or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Purge Your Watch History, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Purge Your Watch History from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Purge Your Watch History. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Purge Your Watch History or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.