Is Quick Live News & Custom Web Search safe?
Clean risk
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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search.yahoo.comquicklivenews.com