Is Family Search safe?
Family Search sets Privatesearch as the default search provider and sends typed searches and suggestions to its domains.
After installation, Chrome routes omnibox searches through search.privatesearch.online with static yid=c5pr and vert=private parameters. Live suggestion text is sent to sug.privatesearch.online as the user types, so search terms and form input reach those services.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.6. 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 privatesearch.online
*://*.privatesearch.online/*
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Family Search 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.
- search.privatesearch.online
Family Search sends data to search.privatesearch.online. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sug.privatesearch.online
Family Search sends data to sug.privatesearch.online. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.