The problem with "protection"
Most phishing protection tools make a silent trade-off — they protect you by watching you. They send your browsing data to the cloud, make remote lookups on every URL you visit, and build profiles of your behavior. You're trading one privacy risk for another.
That's the gap PhishClean was built to fill.
There was no browser extension that offered serious, multi-layered phishing and token leak detection — domain mismatches, JWT exposure, API key leaks, hidden iframes, HTTPS downgrades — without sending a single byte of your browsing data to a server. Everything else either:
- Only did basic URL blacklist checks (cloud-dependent), or
- Offered deep detection but at the cost of your privacy
The founding principle
PhishClean was built on a simple belief: your browser should protect you, not report on you.
All detection runs locally on your device — no cloud lookups, no passwords transmitted, no page content uploaded, no tracking. We only collect the account and billing information needed to activate and manage your subscription: your install ID, account email, license state, and extension version.
100% local. 100% private. Zero compromise on security.
That's the founding principle — and it hasn't changed. Every detection signal, every scan, every alert runs entirely inside your browser. Your data stays yours.