Is Get Maps & Directions safe?

Medium risk

Get Maps & Directions sets getdirectionsmaps.com as the default search provider and sends address-bar searches there.

The extension changes Chrome's default search provider to getdirectionsmaps.com. Searches typed into the address bar are sent to its search and suggestion endpoints in the q query parameter.

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Who publishes it

Watch Movies Online - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

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

Publisher
Watch Movies Online

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 10k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

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Findings

Address-bar searches are sent to Get Directions Maps.

When you search from the address bar, Get Maps & Directions sets getdirectionsmaps.com as the default search provider.

Search terms go into the q parameter sent to that domain, with URL and browsing-history context those searches create.

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

The user searches from the browser address bar.

The extension did this

The extension's default search-provider override routes the search query to getdirectionsmaps.com.

Captured request
GEThttps://getdirectionsmaps.com/auto-suggest/search.php?q={searchTerms}
Fields in the request
  • Browsing history context
    directions to airport (illustrative)

    Address-bar searches can reveal what topics or destinations the user is trying to reach.

  • Search URL
    https://getdirectionsmaps.com/auto-suggest/search.php?q=directions%20to%20airport (illustrative)

    The request URL includes the user's search terms in the q query parameter.

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Get Maps & Directions 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.

  • getdirectionsmaps.com

    Get Maps & Directions sends data to getdirectionsmaps.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026lfdljcfbppgpgcbahhcpdahbmlpddkmf