Is Video Converter World & Custom Web Search safe?
Video Converter World replaces the browser's default search engine with a Yahoo affiliate URL that embeds tracking parameters in every query.
When installed, the extension sets the browser's default search provider to a Yahoo affiliate endpoint (search.yahoo.com/yhs/search) that includes fixed affiliate and tracking parameters — hspart, hsimp, type, param1, param2 — appended to each search. The extension's own homepage also routes address-bar queries through the same affiliate pipeline via a hardcoded constant in html/js/constants.js. Search terms entered by the user are forwarded to Yahoo through these monetized affiliate links.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.1. 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 videoconverterworld.com
*://videoconverterworld.com/*
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 Video Converter World & 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
Video Converter World & Custom Web Search sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.