Is Weather Authority & Custom Web Search safe?
This extension adds weather forecasts and custom Yahoo web search access to the browser.
It provides weather updates, location-based forecasts, and 7-day forecasts through Weather Authority tools. The description says it collects IP-derived location, technical data, and search inputs used with the weather search features, and the manifest allows access to weatherauthority.co.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Weather Authority & 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.
- weatherauthority.co
Weather Authority & Custom Web Search sends data to weatherauthority.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- Yahoowidely used
Weather Authority & Custom Web Search sends data to Yahoo. Named as a recipient by 42 other extensions we have analysed.