Is News Lovers Tab safe?
News Lovers Tab is medium risk. When you use the News Lovers Tab new-tab search box, the extension forwards the typed search terms to ext.iadispatcher.com. The submitted form includes the query as a URL parameter, so the remote service receives the words you entered.
Who publishes itDiversify Media, Inc. - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Diversify Media, Inc. - 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, 9k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
Findings
New-tab search queries are sent to iadispatcher.com
When you use the News Lovers Tab new-tab search box, the extension forwards the typed search terms to ext.iadispatcher.com.
The submitted form includes the query as a URL parameter, so the remote service receives the words you entered.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user submits a search from the extension's new-tab page.
The extension forwards the typed search query to ext.iadispatcher.com.
- Search queryweather this weekend (illustrative)
The words typed into the new-tab search box describe what the user is looking for.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.4. 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 every site you visit
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change your data on google.com
*://*.google.com/
Store data in your browser
storage
Run searches with your default search engine
search