Is Freshy Search safe?

Clean risk

Freshy Search redirects default-search queries to Freshy with a stored Freshy GUID.

Freshy Search sets itself as the browser's default search provider and redirects searches through Freshy's search service. The redirect includes the user's search term and a persistent Freshy GUID stored by the extension, so those values are sent with default-search requests.

Freshyv1.23.211Chrome Web Store
1Risk
Who publishes it

Tightrope Interactive - 12 other listings from the same operator, 3 of them carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Freshy
Declared legal entity
Tightrope Interactive
Registered address
248 3rd Street, Oakland, CA 94607, US
Registered contact
Freshy

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.23.211. 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 freshysearch-api.net

    *://*.freshysearch-api.net/*

  • 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

  • Run searches with your default search engine

    search

  • Block and redirect the requests your browser makes

    declarativeNetRequest

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed FreshySearch 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.freshysearch-api.net

    FreshySearch sends data to search.freshysearch-api.net. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026oikgbpcmdphfkhplgkfngjilemlolann