About Qhawa

Qhawa means "to look" or "to watch over" in Quechua. We are a small, independent team that makes a free Chrome extension: it blocks ads and trackers and warns you when you open a known scam or malware page. We are not an ad agency and we do not sell data.

How Qhawa is funded

Only by voluntary donations. There is no paid version, we never charge advertisers to let their ads through, and we have no "acceptable ads" program. If that ever changed, we would say so here first.

How Qhawa decides what to block

• Ads and trackers: public, community-maintained lists such as EasyList that anyone can inspect.
• Scams and malware: public lists updated daily, such as URLhaus by abuse.ch and open-source phishing lists.
• In your browser: checks run on your computer. Your browsing history is not sent to any server of ours; we have no servers that receive it.

How we write our guides

1. We pick topics based on what people actually search for, using public search data.
2. We test what we explain in Chrome before publishing.
3. We cite official sources at the end of each guide: Chrome and Google documentation, cybersecurity agencies, and the services themselves.
4. Each guide shows the date it was last really updated. We only change it when the content changes.
5. When a guide mentions Qhawa, it does so in a separate "What Qhawa does" section, so general advice stays apart from our product.

Corrections

If you find a mistake or something out of date, email hola@qhawa.app. We review it and, when needed, fix the guide and update its date.