Is Search Safety safe?
Search Safety sends install telemetry to Lavasoft and loads each new tab through mynewtab.co with install details.
Search Safety creates a stored install ID and install date, then posts install, update, daily activity, and meta events with browser and extension environment details to flow.lavasoft.com. It also overrides the browser's new tab page and loads an iframe from mynewtab.co with the stored install date and partner ID whenever a new tab opens.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes it7270356 Canada Inc. - 3 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
7270356 Canada Inc. - 3 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 2.0M+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
Same operator - 2 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
Shared hosts - 3 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.0. 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 acs.lavasoft.com
*://acs.lavasoft.com/*
Read and change your data on flow.lavasoft.com
*://flow.lavasoft.com/*
Read and change your data on yahoo.com
https://*.yahoo.com/*
Read and change your data on acscdn.lavasoft.com
*://acscdn.lavasoft.com/*
Read and change your data on mynewtab.co
*://mynewtab.co/*
Read and change your data on defaultsearch.co
https://defaultsearch.co/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search Safety 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.
- flow.lavasoft.com
Search Safety sends data to flow.lavasoft.com. 3 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- mynewtab.co
Search Safety sends data to mynewtab.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.