Is Search and New Tab by Yahoo safe?
Search and New Tab by Yahoo sends destination URLs and a persistent tracking token to geo.yahoo.com on every new-tab link click.
Each time a user clicks a link or submits a search on the new-tab page, the extension fires a beacon to geo.yahoo.com containing the full destination URL and a persistent UUID (ctid) generated at install time and stored locally. The beacon also carries the UI section, link label, grid position, browser type, extension version, and locale. A separate listener exposes the user's stored location, favorite sites, and Yahoo cookie data to any other installed browser extension that connects to it.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.2.1. 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 yahoo.com
*://*.yahoo.com/
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search and New Tab by Yahoo 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.
- geo.yahoo.com
Search and New Tab by Yahoo sends data to geo.yahoo.com. 5 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.