Is Games Universe & Search safe?
Games Universe & Search sends browser and popup search queries to a Yahoo affiliate search endpoint.
Games Universe & Search changes the browser's default search provider so searches are sent to a Yahoo YHS affiliate URL. Its popup search box also reads the typed query and opens the same Yahoo search endpoint with affiliate parameters.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1. 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 gamesuniverse.co
https://gamesuniverse.co/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Games Universe & 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
Games Universe & Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analysed send data here.