Is Web Shield safe?

Medium risk

Web Shield routes browser search queries and suggestions through dealsearcherplus.com domains.

Web Shield changes Chrome's default search provider so omnibox searches go to dealsearcherplus.com/search. Search suggestion requests are sent to hints.dealsearcherplus.com/services/hints, making this manifest-level search redirection the evidenced data flow.

v1.6.2.14Chrome Web Store
45Risk
Who publishes it

1 other listing from the same operator, none 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, 20k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

Deal Search Plus20k+Clean

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Findings

Omnibox searches go to Dealsearcherplus search domains

When you search from the address bar, Web Shield changes the default search provider so terms go to Dealsearcherplus search/suggestion domains.

The confirmed flow covers the search URL and browsing-history context those searches create.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user searches from the browser omnibox.

The extension did this

The extension overrides the default search provider so search and suggestion requests go to Dealsearcherplus domains.

Captured request
GEThttps://dealsearcherplus.com/search/?q={searchTerms}
Fields in the request
  • Search or page URL
    https://dealsearcherplus.com/search/?q=weather

    Shows the browser search destination and includes the terms entered into the address bar.

  • Browsing history context
    address-bar search for weather

    Search requests create a record of what the user looked for through the configured search provider.

Observation

Dynamic analysis confirmed the manifest-level search provider override, including the search URL and suggestion URL used for omnibox searches.

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Web Shield 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.

  • dealsearcherplus.com

    Web Shield sends data to dealsearcherplus.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • hints.dealsearcherplus.com

    Web Shield sends data to hints.dealsearcherplus.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026npjojkbooocnpdhchmambjgfbgmbfmde