Is Quick Live News & Custom Web Search safe?
Quick Live News & Custom Web Search replaces the default search engine with Yahoo using affiliate tracking parameters.
When installed, the extension sets Yahoo as the default search engine with embedded affiliate identifiers (hspart=mnet, hsimp=yhs-001) that route searches through an affiliate program. If the user accepts an optional opt-in prompt, the extension also fetches the user's approximate geolocation via quicklivenews.com, disclosing the IP address in the process.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.6. 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 quicklivenews.com
*://quicklivenews.com/
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Quick Live News & 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
Quick Live News & Custom Web Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- quicklivenews.com
Quick Live News & Custom Web Search sends data to quicklivenews.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.