Is Package Tracking Tab & Custom Web Search safe?
Package Tracking Tab installs Yahoo Search with affiliate codes as the default search engine without disclosing the commercial arrangement.
When installed, the extension replaces the browser's default search engine with a Yahoo Search URL that contains publisher-specific affiliate codes (hspart=mnet, hsimp=yhs-001, type=type9068662-spa-3537-241085). All searches entered in the address bar are routed through these parameters, generating affiliate revenue for the extension's publisher. The arrangement is not disclosed in the install prompt or the extension's description.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.9. 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 packagetrackingtab.com
*://packagetrackingtab.com/
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Package Tracking Tab & Custom Web 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.
- search.yahoo.comwidely used
Package Tracking Tab & Custom Web Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.