Is Productivity Boost & Search safe?
Productivity Boost & Search overrides the default search engine to Yahoo with affiliate tracking and sends IPs to productivityboost.net.
The extension replaces the browser's default search engine with Yahoo through a hardcoded affiliate URL with publisher-specific tracking parameters, routing all search bar queries through Yahoo's affiliate program. Each time the extension's new-tab page opens, it automatically fetches a GeoIP endpoint at productivityboost.net, transmitting the user's IP address and receiving their city to display on a clock widget.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.4. 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 productivityboost.net
*://productivityboost.net/*
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Productivity Boost & 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
Productivity Boost & Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- productivityboost.net
Productivity Boost & Search sends data to productivityboost.net. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.