Is Lighthouse safe?
Lighthouse's new-tab search box labelled Bing sends every query to the affiliate-tagged portal www.msearch.co.
Searches typed into the new-tab box are opened on www.msearch.co with affiliate parameters, even though the option is labelled Bing. If the JD.com option is chosen, the query is wrapped in a union-click.jd.com affiliate redirect. Typed text is also stored in localStorage and sent to Baidu's suggestion service on each keystroke.
Rated medium risk because of who publishes it: 1 of the 1 other listing from the same operator is rated high or critical for malicious behaviour. Flagged: Lighthouse (high).
Who publishes itHarbour Technologies Shares Co., Ltd - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Harbour Technologies Shares Co., Ltd - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 124 users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Lighthouse 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.
- sp0.baidu.com
Lighthouse sends data to sp0.baidu.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- union-click.jd.com
Lighthouse sends data to union-click.jd.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- www.msearch.co
Lighthouse sends data to www.msearch.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.