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Fish Catcher by Nika Topuria

Fish Catcher warns you in plain language when a site looks like phishing or a scam. Runs on your device, never blocks, nothing leaves your browser.

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Fish Catcher watches the website you are on and warns you when it looks like phishing
or a scam. It explains the warning signs in plain language, it never blocks a page, and
it never sends your browsing anywhere. It is built for people who are not security experts.

What it does:
  • Checks the page you are visiting for common phishing tricks: fake login pages,
    lookalike domains (paypa1.com, micr0soft.com, look-alike characters from other
    alphabets), confusing links, raw IP addresses, and known bad sites.
  • Catches brand-new scams too. A small on-device model spots the random, computer-
    generated web addresses that fresh phishing sites use, and it flags a login, code or
    passkey prompt that appears on a site pretending to be a brand it is not
    (adversary-in-the-middle pages).
  • Spots specific scam types: a page that asks you to type your crypto wallet recovery
    phrase or private key, fake "your computer is infected, call this number" tech-support
    pages, and the device-code trick.
  • Colors the toolbar icon green, yellow, orange or red so you see the risk at a glance,
    and tells you why in a sentence or two, so you learn to spot it yourself.
  • Checks QR codes before you trust them: right-click any QR image, or scan one with your
    camera or from a file in the panel.
  • Flags links whose visible text does not match where they really go, and warns about
    shortened links that hide their destination.
  • Optional download guard: warns when a download is disguised, like a program pretending
    to be a PDF, with a one-click cancel.
  • Family mode: bigger text, a clear alert on dangerous sites, and an optional one-tap
    email to a helper you choose. Nothing is sent until you press send.
  • Report this site: one button opens a ready-made report, so a risky site can be added
    to the shared threat list after a person reviews it.

Privacy by design

Everything runs on your device. No account, no tracking, no analytics, no server of ours.
A few optional features can look something up online, and each stays off until you turn
it on: daily threat-list updates (download only), a domain-age check (sends only the
domain name), and Google Safe Browsing with your own free key. Leave them off and Fish
Catcher still protects you.

Honest about mistakes

A warning tool is only worth trusting if you can check how often it is wrong. On the top
100,000 legitimate websites, fewer than 0.01% get a high or critical warning, and the
audit is reproducible with one command.
See fishcatcher.dev/transparency.

Free and open source (MIT). No tool can guarantee a site is safe. Always stay alert when entering passwords.
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Permissions and data

Required permissions:

  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for all web sites

Optional permissions:

  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Display notifications to you

Data collection:

  • The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.

Optional data collection, according to the developer:

  • Web site activity
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Version
1.0.0
Size
1.11 MB
Last updated
5 days ago (19 Aug 2026)
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  • Privacy & Security
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Licence
MIT Licence
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  • anti malware
  • privacy
  • security
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