Ext.privacyassistant.net is a Search engine that you probably have not heard of before because most people prefer to stick to using the services of reputable Web search providers like Bing, Google and Yahoo. However, the Ext.privacyassistant.net may start appearing in your Web browser suddenly, even though you may not have heard of it before. This weird occurrence may seem unexplainable at first, but we are prepared to give you a concise and reasonable explanation. The Ext.privacyassistant.net page is promoted by a Web browser extension linked to it, that goes by the name ‘Privacy Assistant.’ This extension is meant to provide users with an anonymous search feature that will keep their search queries and interests private, therefore preventing the data from being accessed by marketing agencies or other companies that deal with online ads. The ‘Privacy Assistant’ browser extension also may promote another domain name that hosts the same page seen on Ext.privacyassistant.net – Searchassist.net.

Both pages feature the same search field that redirects the user to the Bing.com search engine results page. It is clear that the extension’s promises to keep your searches private are not true, and it does not perform anything special to achieve this. Instead, it simply redirects all search queries through a 3rd-party search engine, therefore improving the traffic it generates significantly. By bringing more users to Ext.privacyassistant.net or Searchassist.net, the owners may broaden their monetization options, since advertisers are more likely to invest in ads hosted on more popular pages. At the end of the day, the ‘Privacy Assistant’ extension is just a gimmick used to trick people into helping the owners of Ext.privacyassistant.net and Searchassist.net monetize their Web content.

If you have the Ext.privacyassistant.net set as your new tab page or homepage, then it is in your interest to revert this change and remove the software that caused it in the first place. Removing the ‘Privacy Assistant’ extension is a task that should not take a lot of time if you opt to use a reputable computer security application to resolve the issue. If you are a fan of manual removal, then you should open your web browser’s extension manager and uninstall ‘Privacy Assistant’ from there.
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