Is Recipio safe?
Recipio routes all search queries through Yahoo affiliate search with hardcoded partner tracking codes, without disclosing this to users.
When a user enters a query in the extension popup, Recipio sends it to Yahoo's host-syndicated search (search.yahoo.com/yhs/search) with fixed affiliate parameters (hspart=sz, hsimp=yhs-038, type=type80179-990480695). This applies to both regular searches and the 'news' recipe-site mode. The affiliate codes monetize each search click for the extension publisher.
Who publishes itTo Go Networks - no other listings under this identity
To Go Networks - no other listings under this identity
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Findings
Popup searches are routed through Yahoo affiliate tracking codes.
When you search from the Recipio popup, the extension opens a Yahoo search URL with partner tracking parameters attached.
It sends your search terms to search.yahoo.com/yhs/search using hardcoded affiliate codes.
What actually happens
The user submits a search from the extension popup.
The extension opens a Yahoo search URL containing the user's query and hardcoded affiliate tracking parameters.
Captured request
Fields in the request
- Your search queryweather tomorrow (illustrative)
The words you enter in the popup are sent as the search term.
- Yahoo search URLhttps://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=sz&hsimp=yhs-038&type=type80179-990480695&p=weather%20tomorrow (illustrative)
The destination URL includes fixed partner parameters that identify the affiliate search path.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.5. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Recipio 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
Recipio sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.