Is You.com | The Search Engine You Control safe?

Clean risk

This extension sets You.com as the browser’s default search engine.

It lets users search with You.com directly from the browser search bar. Its site permissions cover You.com subdomains and localhost as listed in the manifest.

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Who publishes it

You.com - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
You.com
Website

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed You.com | The Search Engine You Control 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.

  • you.com

    You.com | The Search Engine You Control sends data to you.com. 3 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

  • *.you.com

    You.com | The Search Engine You Control sends data to *.you.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • localhost

    You.com | The Search Engine You Control sends data to localhost. Named as a recipient by 19 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-2757180