Is Gaming News Feed safe?
Gaming News Feed sends new-tab search terms to bethegamepro suggestions and submitted searches to Yahoo.
Gaming News Feed replaces the browser's new tab page with its own search page. As a user types in that search box, the typed terms are sent to suggesting.bethegamepro.com for suggestions, and submitted searches are opened on Yahoo with affiliate parameters.
Who publishes itTo Go Networks - no other listings under this identity
To Go Networks - no other listings under this identity
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Findings
New-tab search terms go to suggestion and Yahoo search services.
When you type in the Gaming News Feed new-tab search box, the extension sends the typed search terms to the bethegamepro suggestion service.
When you submit a search, it opens Yahoo search with the same query and affiliate parameters.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user types in the new-tab search box or submits a search.
The extension sends the typed query to the bethegamepro suggestion endpoint and opens Yahoo search with affiliate parameters for submitted searches.
- Your search termsweather today (illustrative)
The words typed into the new-tab search box can reveal current interests or browsing intent.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.1. 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 bethegamepro.com
*://*.bethegamepro.com/*
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Gaming News Feed 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
Gaming News Feed sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- suggesting.bethegamepro.com
Gaming News Feed sends data to suggesting.bethegamepro.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.