Is Flight Tab Pro & Custom Web Search safe?
Flight Tab Pro redirects all address-bar and new-tab searches through Yahoo affiliate URLs that pay the publisher per query.
On installation, the extension sets Yahoo Hosted Search as the browser's default search engine via manifest search_provider overrides, embedding affiliate tracking parameters (hspart, hsimp, type) that generate revenue for the publisher with each search. The new-tab homepage uses a separate Yahoo affiliate slot with different parameters, meaning both search entry points route queries through monetised URLs. User search terms are sent to search.yahoo.com as part of normal query processing.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.3. 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 flighttabpro.com
*://flighttabpro.com/
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Flight Tab Pro & Custom Web 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.yahoo.comwidely used
Flight Tab Pro & Custom Web Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.