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Every time you search on Google a request is made to https://keywordkeg.com/service/1/getKeywordData.php to grab pricing/volume data. This means keywordkeg is aware of all your google searches. A privacy-aware solution could have been to make direct requests to Google API without proxying via keywordkeg middleware.

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You can go to the options page and simply disable any of the supported websites.

Additionally, if you see the source code, you can see that there is no tracking information sent to the API - only the keyword.

There is also no way to send requests to the Google API to get keyword data.

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