Is Online Safety safe?
Online Safety is medium risk. When you search on Google or Bing, Online Safety redirects the results page to onlinesafetysearch.net, carrying the search URL context and your typed search terms to www.onlinesafetysearch.net/search/ via declarativeNetRequest rules.
Who publishes itJames Hill - no other listings under this identity
James Hill - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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Findings
Google and Bing searches redirect to onlinesafetysearch.net
When you search on Google or Bing, Online Safety redirects the results page to onlinesafetysearch.net, carrying the search URL context and your typed search terms to www.onlinesafetysearch.net/search/ via declarativeNetRequest rules.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user opens a Google or Bing search results page.
The extension redirects the search page to onlinesafetysearch.net and includes the captured search query.
- Search page URLhttps://www.google.com/search?q=weather (illustrative)
Shows which Google or Bing search page triggered the redirect.
- Search queryweather (illustrative)
Contains the words typed into the search box and can reveal the topic you searched for.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.9. 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>
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest