Is Hot.Game+ safe?
Hot.Game+ swaps in its own affiliate IDs on ~15 partner game stores, auto-enabled with no prompt on Opera, Yandex and Vivaldi.
The extension keeps a hardcoded list of about 15 partner domains (gamazavr.ru, steambuy.com, store.epicgames.com, plati.ru, and others) and, on every visit to one, replaces the site's own referral/affiliate query parameter with its own value, or sets a 30-day affiliate cookie directly on the partner's domain. On stock Chrome or Edge this only happens after the user clicks 'Agree' in a consent dialog, but the extension detects other Chromium-based browsers (Opera, Yandex Browser, Vivaldi) by user agent and turns the redirects on automatically, skipping the consent step entirely.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed hotgame+ 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.
- store.epicgames.com
hotgame+ sends data to store.epicgames.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- gamazavr.ru
hotgame+ sends data to gamazavr.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- gameray.ru
hotgame+ sends data to gameray.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- gamerz.online
hotgame+ sends data to gamerz.online. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- plati.ru
hotgame+ sends data to plati.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- playo.ru
hotgame+ sends data to playo.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- steambuy.com
hotgame+ sends data to steambuy.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- zaka-zaka.com
hotgame+ sends data to zaka-zaka.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.