Is My Safe Search safe?
My Safe Search exposes its Chrome extension ID to pages on mysafesearch.co.
When mysafesearch.co loads, the content script adds a page element whose id is the extension's runtime ID. Scripts on that site can read the stable extension ID from the page DOM.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on mysafesearch.co
*://mysafesearch.co/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed My Safe 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.
- mysafesearch.co
My Safe Search sends data to mysafesearch.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.