Is Better Search safe?
Better Search routes browser searches and suggestions to getbettersearch-api.com with a persistent install identifier.
Better Search makes itself the browser's default search provider, so omnibox searches and suggestion text are sent to getbettersearch-api.com endpoints. On install it retrieves and stores a GUID, then rewrites Better Search search page requests so submitted queries are sent with that same identifier.
Who publishes itTightrope Interactive - 13 other listings from the same operator, 4 of them carrying a finding
Tightrope Interactive - 13 other listings from the same operator, 4 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same operator - 13 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.26.309. 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 getbettersearch-api.com
*://*.getbettersearch-api.com/*
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed BetterSearch 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.
- meta.getbettersearch-api.com
BetterSearch sends data to meta.getbettersearch-api.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- search.getbettersearch-api.com
BetterSearch sends data to search.getbettersearch-api.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.