Video-privacy.com Redirects - How to remove

Video-privacy.com is the site that may appear in your address bar when you search for something online. It’s related to the Always Incognito extension. Through this extension, Video-privacy.com receives the search queries and some technical data about each user, which it can use for advertising purposes.

About Video-privacy.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Video-privacy.com	It logs your search queries and other data, contrary to Always Incognito’s promises to improve your privacy, it opens and closes browser tabs.
How Always Incognito is installed	Advertised online, offered by another program’s installer.
How to remove Video-privacy.com	Uninstall Always Incognito and other unwanted extensions, find and remove malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.).

Video-privacy.com

Advertising site

Does Video-privacy.com briefly appear in your browser’s address bar when you search for something? If yes, then you may have the Always Incognito extension installed.

Video-privacy.com promotes the Always Incognito browser extension. With the help of this extension, Video-privacy.com collects data about each user – their location, interests, and technical data bout their device. Video-privacy.com uses this data to be able to display personalized ads.

Video-privacy.com combines data from third parties and uses it to deliver personalized ads to each user. It can share data that it’s gathered with third parties, too.

It might seem a little strange that such an intrusive site comes with an extension called Always Incognito – an extension that promises to help you “secure your privacy”. But that’s how it is.

How Video-privacy.com and Always Incognito work

Deleting the browsing history

Always Incognito is described on the Chrome Web Store as a tool that helps you protect your privacy by automatically deleting your browsing history as you close the browser.

It seems important to note that this only helps you if you share the same computer and browser with other people. Your internet service provider and the sites you visit can still see what you are doing.

But Always Incognito does delete your browsing history, which is good. The problem is all the privacy violations done in the background.

Reading search terms

Always Incognito observes your Google searches. It reads the query that you typed in, then sends it to Video-privacy.com. As far as I can tell, it only does this on Google.com and only when you installed Always Incognito after being referred by an ad.

Knowing that Video-privacy.com collects so much data, it’s not surprising that Always Incognito does this. But it’s terrible for your privacy!

Access to all the webpages

And here’s another detail – When Always Incognito is installed, it asks to access your data on all the sites that you visit. This is excessive – it could read everything you type on every webpage, including personal messages and even passwords. Always Incognito doesn’t even need this access. I disabled it in Google Chrome’s extension settings and it continued to delete history just fine.

It must be for Video-privacy.com that it needs to access all the sites that you visit. So that Video-privacy.com can receive your search terms and display ads.

Video-privacy.com’s privacy policy talked about its advertising, but I did not notice Always Incognito injecting any ads into my browser. It may be that Video-privacy.com is some kind of a tracking and advertising company that collaborates with various advertisers and publishers. But the fact remains that Always Incognito is able to see and change the data on all the websites that are opened.

In many ways, Video-privacy.com reminds me of Historyorganizer.xyz, Shopping-friend.xyz, and other sites. They promise a useful utility to get you to install their extensions, then they mess with your searches.

How to remove Video-privacy.com

Alternatives

You could use the real Incognito mode, also called Private window, to keep your browsing history from being seen by others. It’s available from the main menu of the browser. It’s more powerful than the Always Incognito extension, though it is not perfect at protecting your privacy. You might need something like the Tor browser for better anonimity.

I recommend removing Always Incognito and using a more trustworthy extension. Look for one that doesn’t seem to be commercial. If it doesn’t need to make money, then it probably isn’t selling your data.

You can also delete history entries manually. Just open the History page (Ctrl+H on Windows, Cmd+Y on macOS), select the entries that you want removed, and delete them. You can search for a specific site, select one entry, then select all with the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+A on Windows, Cmd+A on macOS). There are lots of options.

Removing Video-privacy.com

You can uninstall unwanted extensions from browser settings or from the extension area in the upper right. Either way, check all the extensions, not just Always Incognito. If you find some that you didn’t install yourself, remove them.

You can also use an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others to check your computer for malware. Video-privacy.com is not malware and neither is Always Incognito, however, they’re adware and thus malware-adjacent. Adware and malware tend to not be too far from each other.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Video-privacy.com Redirects 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 Video-privacy.com Redirects. Click on the trash bin icon next to Video-privacy.com Redirects 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 Video-privacy.com Redirects, 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 Video-privacy.com Redirects 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 Video-privacy.com Redirects. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Video-privacy.com Redirects 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.