Is Sponsored Search by SearchesCentral safe?
Sponsored Search by SearchesCentral sends searches to Yahoo with affiliate and install-date parameters.
The extension makes Yahoo the default search provider and its new tab search form also submits queries to Yahoo with SearchesCentral affiliate parameters. After the user accepts the opt-in prompt, it stores the install date and rewrites sponsored Yahoo search URLs so that date is included in the request.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2022.2.17. 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 hsearchescentral.com
*://*.hsearchescentral.com/*
Read and change your data on search.yahoo.com
*://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=adk*
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
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Sponsored Search by SearchesCentral 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
Sponsored Search by SearchesCentral sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analysed send data here.