Discover My Ancestry
The Discover My Ancestry program can be found at Discovermyancestry.com where it is said to offer access to your ancestry right from your new tab page. The details on what the Discover My Ancestry program does are sparse if you rely on what is provided at Discovermyancestry.com. The Discover My Ancestry is packed as a browser extension that you can add to Google Chrome from Chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/discover-my-ancestry/bpdonbpnaihpljpcadlhagjdblcnhkfc and use free of charge. The app at hand is developed by a company called Polarity Technologies Ltd, which we have mentioned in many of our articles on riskware. The company behind the Discover My Ancestry makes money by redirecting users to promotional content, custom search engines and selling Internet history records to marketers.
The Discover My Ancestry is perceived as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by Polarity Technologies Ltd that makes modifications to Google Chrome and may send data to third parties. The Discover My Ancestry extension may change the new tab page in Chrome, manage your installed extensions and record your Internet history for market development purposes. The app is observed to set h[tt]p://search.hdiscovermyancestry[.]com/?uc=[currentdate]&i_id=ancestry_1.0&cid=bpdonbpnaihpljpcadlhagjdblcnhkfc&page=newtab& as the default new tab page and welcome Web surfers to use the embedded search by Yahoo, which leads users to:
h[tt]ps://search.yahoo[.]com/yhs/search?hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&p=[search term]+build¶m2=ac027708-ed1e-4c8a-9955-1cd050ab2593¶m3=ancestry_1.0~EN~¶m4=~Chrome~[search term]+build¶m1=20180313&type=
The Discover My Ancestry New Tab page includes links to sites like Meaning-of-names.com, Familyecho.com, Familyhistorydaily.com, Ancestry.com and Familyhistorydaily.com. However, the sites mentioned before do not appear to endorse the use of the Discover My Ancestry by Polarity. Computer users who may have installed the Discover My Ancestry extension don't need it to load Meaning-of-names.com, Familyecho.com, Familyhistorydaily.com, Ancestry.com and Familyhistorydaily.com correctly. The Discover My Ancestry program collects non-personally identifiable data to help marketers on Yahoo show related commercials, limited time deals, and promotion when the connected pages detect your system. You might wish to remove the Discover My Ancestry extension using a credible anti-spyware scanner.
