Is Default search engine set to QWT safe?

Clean risk

Sets Qwant as the browser’s default search engine for web searches.

This extension automatically replaces the browser’s default search engine with Qwant. The store description highlights Qwant’s clean interface, fast results, no targeted ads, and search results without personalized filtering. Its permissions allow it to access and block web requests across all sites.

0Risk

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Default search engine set to QWT 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.

  • Qwant

    Default search engine set to QWT sends data to Qwant. Named as a recipient by 2 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-3009001