Is Maps links in Brave Search safe?
Maps links in Brave Search opens clicked map links with your Brave Search query in the selected maps provider.
When you click its injected map links on Brave Search, it reads the current search query and opens the selected maps provider with that query in the URL. The default choices include Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap, Apple Maps, and HERE WeGo, and a custom provider can also receive the query if configured.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Maps links in Brave 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.
- www.bing.comwidely used
Maps links in Brave Search sends data to www.bing.com. A widely used service: 29 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- google.com
Maps links in Brave Search sends data to google.com. 6 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- maps.apple.com
Maps links in Brave Search sends data to maps.apple.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- wego.here.com
Maps links in Brave Search sends data to wego.here.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- www.openstreetmap.org
Maps links in Brave Search sends data to www.openstreetmap.org. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.