Is Safe Browsing safe?
Safe Browsing sends search terms to MyPrivateSearch as its default search provider.
Safe Browsing sets MyPrivateSearch as the browser's default search provider, so searches entered through that provider go to www.myprivatesearch.com and suggestions go to sugg.myprivatesearch.com. If the user enables its Google or Bing redirect options, the extension reads search-result page URLs and forwards the search query to MyPrivateSearch instead.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.25. 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 every site you visit
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change your data on myprivatesearch.com
*://*.myprivatesearch.com/
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Safe Browsing 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.
- sugg.myprivatesearch.com
Safe Browsing sends data to sugg.myprivatesearch.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- www.myprivatesearch.com
Safe Browsing sends data to www.myprivatesearch.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.