Is Turbo Converter & Custom Web Search safe?
Turbo Converter & Custom Web Search replaces the browser's default search engine with Yahoo Search using embedded affiliate tracking parameters.
The extension sets Yahoo Search as the default search provider via manifest settings, routing every browser search through a URL with hardcoded monetization identifiers (hspart, hsimp, type, param1, param2). These parameters are also embedded in the extension's homepage and constants files as fallback URLs, ensuring all search queries carry the affiliate tracking codes.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.3. 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 turboconverter.co
*://turboconverter.co/*
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Turbo Converter & Custom Web Search 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
Turbo Converter & Custom Web Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.