Is Yahoo Search Addon safe?
Yahoo Search Addon sends a persistent client ID and browser environment details to Yahoo on install and every four hours.
The extension creates or reuses a persistent client tracking ID stored in browser storage. It sends that ID with extension version, UI language or market, browser, and operating system details to Yahoo during installation and in recurring live pings every four hours.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1resigned1. 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 yahoo.com
*://*.yahoo.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Yahoo Search Addon 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.
- geo.yahoo.com
Yahoo Search Addon sends data to geo.yahoo.com. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.