Is Beautiful Beaches safe?
Beautiful Beaches sends new-tab search queries to a third-party search proxy instead of the browser's default search engine.
This extension replaces your new tab page with a custom page featuring beach photos and widgets. When you type a search and press enter, the page does not use the browser's built-in search API (it never requests the 'search' permission needed to do so); instead it always redirects the query to landscape-extensions.com, tagged with the extension's own product ID, with no mention of this behavior in the listing's description or privacy policy.
Who publishes itSyndic8 - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
Syndic8 - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 2 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Findings
Beautiful Beaches new tab sends your search text to landscape-extensions.com
We observed the new-tab search box send typed queries to landscape-extensions.com, which redirected to Yahoo.
The manifest lacks the search permission, so this path is the one used.
The listing does not mention it.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You type a search into the new-tab box and press Enter.
The tab goes to landscape-extensions.com instead of your default search engine.
That site then redirected to search.yahoo.com.
302 redirect to https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=canary+beach+query
Search handler and the hardcoded redirect target
Redirect target constant
assets/index-DP1xYJnn.jsconst Jt = "https://landscape-extensions.com/search?ext=ext_q0hjmw7n&q=",Submit handler
assets/index-DP1xYJnn.jsA.addEventListener("submit", s => { s.preventDefault(); const n = m.value.trim(); if (!n) { m.focus(); return } typeof chrome < "u" && chrome.search && chrome.search.query ? chrome.search.query({ text: n, disposition: "CURRENT_TAB" }) : typeof browser < "u" && browser.search && browser.search.search ? browser.search.search({ query: n }) : window.location.href = `${Jt}${encodeURIComponent(n)}` });- Your search textcanary beach query
The words you typed, sent to a third-party host.
- Extension idext_q0hjmw7n
Tags the request with this extension's own id.
- landscape-extensions.com
Receives the typed query, then answers with a 302 redirect.
- search.yahoo.com
Final destination of the redirect, carrying the same query.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on api.open-meteo.com
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management
Read your physical location
geolocation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Beautiful Beaches contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- landscape-extensions.com
Beautiful Beaches sends data to landscape-extensions.com. 5 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.