mixSportTV Search Plus
The mixSportTV Search Plus is an ad-supported browser extension by SearchAlgo that can be found on the Chrome Webstore (Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mixsporttv-search-plus/fkbakieaapomjcnjdhkhcglpobkleioj). The mixSportTV Search Plus extension is promoted to offer "a variety of unique features and search tools" as stated on its product page. The extension developers promise that the mixSportTV Search Plus extension would help Web users "keep up to date with sport TV channels and search the web with mixSportTV Search Plus online." You should note that the mixSportTV Search Plus program is designed to change your Privacy-related settings and add a drop-down menu to your navigation panel. Installing the mixSportTV Search Plus extension is preceded by an installation pop-up box that says:
'Add "mixSportTV Search Plus"?
It can:
Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
Change your search settings to:apps.searchalgo.com
Change your privacy-related settings.'
The default configuration for the mixSportTV Search Plus is designed to redirect searches in the Omnibox to Apps.searchalgo.com and then to Search.yahoo.com. You can change the redirect destination to the search results page of Google, Yandex, Instagram, eBay, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. Apps.searchalgo.com is not a search service but a redirect-gateway that the company SearchAlgo uses to record your search terms and drop tracking cookies to your system. The search service promoted with the mixSportTV Search Plus extension can be accessed once you type 'sport' in the Omnibox and hit the space bar on your keyboard. Consequently, Web users are redirected to another domain — mix.tvnoop.com, which is supposed to show results related to TV shows you may be interested in. The landing page appears in the Omnibox as h[tt]ps://mix.tvnoop[.]com/tv/search/[search terms] and the small print at the bottom informs visitors that the page is powered by an API (a sort of Web widget) by www.themoviedb.org.
An important distinction to make here is that Mix.tvnoop.co and mixSportTV Search Plus are not endorsed by www.themoviedb.org. SearchAlgo uses the API from www.themoviedb.org for profit by showing targeted commercials in your search results generated via the mixSportTV Search Plus extension. Also, the company helps advertisers recognize your device on supported Web pages and show advertisements relevant to your recent activity on the Internet. You can browse www.themoviedb.org without being tracked over the Internet, and you can skip the redirects via Apps.searchalgo.com by removing the mixSportTV Search Plus extension. The mixSportTV Search Plus software from Mixplugin.com is classified as riskware and a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you may think is better to remove from your Internet browser.
