Is Norton Safe Search Enhanced safe?
Changes Chrome search, home, and new tab pages to Norton Safe Search and shows site safety information.
This extension sets Chrome’s default search provider to searchsafe.norton.com and replaces the home page and new tab page with Norton Safe Search. It provides safety ratings on search results, identifies safer shopping sites, blocks sites described as phishing or malware distribution risks, can show alerts, and can remove malicious downloads.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.20.0.21. 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
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Keep running in the background while your browser is open
background
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Store data in your browser
storage
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Norton 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.
- searchsafe.norton.com
Norton Safe Search sends data to searchsafe.norton.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- Norton
Norton Safe Search sends data to Norton. Named as a recipient by 2 other extensions we have analysed.