Is Explore Beach safe?

Medium risk

Explore Beach sends new-tab search queries to searchtsm.com with an affiliate campaign parameter.

Explore Beach replaces Chrome's new tab page with its own search page. When a user submits a search from that page, the query is sent to searchtsm.com along with a fixed affiliate campaign parameter.

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Findings

New-tab searches are sent to searchtsm.com with an affiliate parameter

When you search from Explore Beach's new-tab page, the extension sends the terms you typed to searchtsm.com.

The request also includes a fixed affiliate campaign parameter, associating each query with the extension's campaign.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.

The extension did this

The extension sends the search query to searchtsm.com with a fixed affiliate campaign parameter.

Captured request
GETsearchtsm.com/?
Fields in the request
  • Search query
    beach vacation ideas (illustrative)

    The words you typed into the new-tab search form are sent to the remote search endpoint.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.9.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed gallery of world wide 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.

  • searchtsm.com

    gallery of world wide beaches! sends data to searchtsm.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026eainpbhkbindfpnankecnnkepcccapch