Is Yahoo Toolbar and New Tab safe?
Yahoo Toolbar and New Tab sends new-tab searches and clicked suggested-site URLs to geo.yahoo.com with a stored CTID.
When you use the new-tab search box or click a suggested site, the extension builds a tracking beacon that includes the resulting URL. The background script adds browser tracking fields and sends the beacon to Yahoo's geo.yahoo.com endpoint with the extension's stored CTID.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.1.5. 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/
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
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 Toolbar and New Tab 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 Toolbar and New Tab sends data to geo.yahoo.com. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.