Is YouTube Search Bar safe?
This extension lets users search YouTube without first opening the YouTube home screen.
It provides a way to search on YouTube directly, based on the developer’s description. The extension is presented as a study-focused tool for avoiding the YouTube home screen before searching.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Search Bar 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.
- YouTubewidely used
YouTube Search Bar sends data to YouTube. Named as a recipient by 46 other extensions we have analysed.