Is Search and Wider Mail by Yahoo safe?
Search and Wider Mail by Yahoo sends recurring install, alive, and Yahoo Mail page-view telemetry to geo.yahoo.com.
The extension creates a persistent CTID in local storage and includes it in Yahoo telemetry beacons along with locale, market, extension version, browser, OS, and distribution metadata. It sends install and recurring alive pings after startup, and sends a page-view ping after main-frame navigation to Yahoo Mail.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.1. 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 mail.yahoo.com
https://*.mail.yahoo.com/*
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
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search and Wider Mail by Yahoo 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
Search and Wider Mail by Yahoo sends data to geo.yahoo.com. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.