Is Yahoo Homepage safe?
Yahoo Homepage transmits a persistent device UUID to Yahoo analytics servers every four hours and injects an identification header on all yahoo.com requests.
On startup and every four hours, the extension sends a beacon to geo.yahoo.com/p carrying a stored UUID (ctid), browser locale, OS, and extension version. Additionally, the extension adds an HTTP request header (`x-extensions-installed: hpset-v2`) to every main-frame navigation to any yahoo.com subdomain, marking the request as originating from a user with this extension installed.
Who publishes itYAHOO INC. - 3 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
YAHOO INC. - 3 other listings 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, 100k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Same operator - 2 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Yahoo Homepage 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
Yahoo Homepage sends data to search.yahoo.com. A widely used service: 39 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- geo.yahoo.com
Yahoo Homepage sends data to geo.yahoo.com. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.