Is Safe Search Engine safe?
Safe Search Engine sends new-tab search terms to server.taskticks.com before opening Google SafeSearch.
When you search from the extension's new-tab page, it posts the entered search term and a date value to server.taskticks.com. After that request, it redirects the tab to a Google SafeSearch results page for the same query.
Who publishes itSafe Search Engine - no other listings under this identity
Safe Search Engine - no other listings under this identity
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Findings
New-tab searches are sent to Taskticks before Google redirect
When you search from the Safe Search Engine new-tab page, the extension sends the search terms to server.taskticks.com before redirecting you to Google SafeSearch.
The affected data is the text entered into the search form.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user presses Enter after typing a search on the new-tab page.
The extension posts the search terms to server.taskticks.com before redirecting to Google SafeSearch.
- Search form inputweather this weekend (illustrative)
The text you entered in the new-tab search box is sent before the browser opens the Google SafeSearch results page.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Safe Search Engine 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.
- server.taskticks.com
Safe Search Engine sends data to server.taskticks.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.