Is Pianoic safe?
Pianoic replaces the new tab with a search box that sends entered searches or URLs to rsrc2u.com.
Pianoic changes Chrome's new tab page to show a piano interface with a search box. When a user enters a search term or URL and submits it, the extension sends that value to rsrc2u.com with affiliate parameters in the request URL.
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Findings
New-tab searches send queries or URLs to rsrc2u.com
When you type in Pianoic's new-tab search box and submit it, the extension sends the entered query or URL to rsrc2u.com.
The request includes affiliate parameters along with the q value, so the remote search service receives what you typed.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You submit a search or URL from the extension's new-tab page.
The extension builds a GET request to rsrc2u.com/results.aspx containing the entered q value and affiliate parameters.
- Search box textpiano lessons (illustrative)
The request carries what you typed into the new-tab search form.
- Entered URLhttps://example.com/search (illustrative)
If you type a URL instead of a search phrase, that URL can be sent as the q value.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Pianoic 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.
- rsrc2u.com
Pianoic sends data to rsrc2u.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.