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I have a lot, but Ultimate Chrome Flag is my favorite.

The reason it's my favorite is because it displays in the URL bar the pagerank of the site I'm on. It's like an instant credibility check whenever I'm browsing or reading an article. In fact, browsing without it (say on my phone or in my newsreader) now feels like an incomplete experience.

My favorite extensions in Firefox are tied, Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar. I'm sure if either got a full-fledged extension in Chrome, it'd probably be my new favorite extension.




Nice but where does it get the information? Is it anonymized?

There is no official PageRank lookup.


I wasn't sure where it got the PR (though I assume it's from one of the many 3rd-party services, since the PR is fairly well known). So I went digging. I found this in the extension source code:

  this.getQueryUrl=function(){
    var b = "http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&hl=en&ch="+getGoogleChecksum(this.domain)+"&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=info:http://"+this.domain;
  }
Also, this is what the extension says about privacy [1]:

This extensions's privacy policy is no different than WOT or any other service or extension that is designed to bring you information on the sites you are visiting. Example, when you search on Google, it will always track your IP. It doesn't access your private data. Chrome shows a warning for all extensions that access browser tabs.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbpojpfdiliekbbi...




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