AVG Home Page

Safely search the web from your home page on Chrome, with AVG. Stay away from phishing and other risky sites.

Enjoy a tailored experience while browsing safely and securely with AVG Home Page. Enhance your home page with customisable backgrounds, dark mode, weather updates, bookmarks, and more. Don’t forget to pair your AVG Home Page with the AVG Safe Search extension to protect your searches! AVG Safe Search will let you know which site is potentially dangerous or fake before you click. How it works: Enhanced Online Protection Protect yourself from identity theft, phishing scams, and other online threats while browsing, searching, or shopping online. AVG will warn you if a website is potentially dangerous. Know When a Site is Potentially Dangerous By installing the AVG Safe Search extension first, you will be warned if a website is potentially dangerous before you click on it. That way, it helps you avoid harmful or fake websites, ensuring a safer online experience. Customizable your Home Page How You Want Personalize your home page with features like customizable backgrounds, dark mode, weather updates, and quick access to bookmarks, creating a more engaging and tailored browsing experience. Set AVG as Your Home Page Installing this extension requires you to set AVG as your Home Page and New Tab page in Chrome. Terms This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension. "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit” Shown for permissions needed for detecting online risks on all types of pages you browse. “Read your browsing history” Shown for permissions needed for creation and management of tabs and information from the extension’s installation page. Displaying site safety rating information reliably during tab manipulations by Chrome or the user. “Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.” Shown for permissions needed for changing the new tab and home page to Avast Safe Search. “Display notifications” Shown for permissions needed for showing alerts when important changes happen for protection activity or when authentication is required for certain features. “This extension can read and change your data on sites. You can control which sites the extension can access.” Shown for permissions needed for exchange of configuration information for performing safety markup on search results: “storage” permission “webRequest” permission Used to obtain search terms from the omnibar/address bar. “webRequestBlocking” permission Used to add data needed to perform safety markup on search results. “storage” permission Used to store and retrieve settings data used by the extension. Used to store and retrieve settings data used by the extension. This extension also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome for performing certain functions within the extension ------- If you do not consent to this data collection and usage, please do not install this add-on or remove it if it is already installed. By using this add-on, you agree to our End User License Agreement (https://www.avg.com/eula) and have read and acknowledge our General Privacy Policy (https://www.avg.com/privacy-policy). Copyright © 2024 Gen Digital Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks, service marks, and tradenames (collectively, the “Marks”) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gen Digital Inc. or its affiliates (“Gen”) or other respective owners that have granted Gen the right to use such Marks. For a list of Gen Marks, please see GenDigital.com/trademarks.