About

Safe Online is a non-profit voluntary effort to improve the safety of internet browsing with the help of the community. If you have software engineering skillset, please get in touch to help make the web a safer place for everyone.

  • Browser Extension

    The Chrome extension leverages latest advances in Manifest v3 technology to provide robust content filtering

  • Image Reconition

    A custom P-hash algorithm is used to detect subtle variations of dangerous images

  • Community Driven

    The software relies on the community reporting dangerous content. All it takes is a simple click within the Extension window.

  • Privacy

    No personal information, tracking or cookies are stored when identifying dangerous content. The reporting is fully anonymous.

  • Content Handling

    The database stores hashes (fingerprints) of reported content in order to identify and filter. The dangerous content is not copied or stored.

  • Future Work

    The current capabilities are limited to simple images represented by <img> tags. Future development will include more complex image representations and videos.