Is Music Search for Chrome™ safe?

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Music Search for Chrome™ is medium risk. When you install Music Search for Chrome™, the extension immediately sets your default search engine to amazingossearch.com — without prompting you. Every search you type in the address bar is sent to that service, which forwards your query to Yahoo with a hardcoded affiliate code (cvds) embedded in the URL. Partial keystrokes typed before you press Enter are also transmitted in real time to a separate suggestion endpoint. Our dynamic analysis captured this redirect in action: a search submitted via the address bar reached Yahoo's search engine with the affiliate identifier type=cvds_5056_CHW_GB appended to every request.

Is Music Search for Chrome™ safe?

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