Grandburst.com

The Grandburst.com portal serves as the official page for the Grand Burst extension. The Grand Burst extension supports Internet clients based on the Chromium project, which includes Google Chrome, SRWare Iron, Vivaldi, Epic Browser, Yandex Browser and Opera. You may see the extension from Grandburst.com listed as Grand Burst Chrome New Tab Extension in software packages that include programs from third parties. Software bundling is a tactic used by freeware and shareware developers to help each other reach more Windows users. The practice is abused by adware developers as well, who hope that many users would rush the installation using the 'Express' or 'Typical' option and allow a potentially unwanted program to work on the computer.

The Grand Burst extension is promoted as a suite of customizations to the browser, which are supposed to improve your online experience and search capabilities. Installing the Grand Burst Chrome New Tab Extension means agreeing to apply changes to the settings in your Internet client and you are not provided with a checklist where you can choose what features you want. Keep in mind that the Grand Burst extension does not provide information on its developers and governing company. If you wish to proceed to install Grand Burst you will need to give Grand Burst the following permissions:

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
• Read and change your browsing history.
• Communicate with cooperating websites.
• Change your search settings to search.grandburst.com.
• Change your home page to home.grandburst.com.
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes.

The Grand Burst Chrome New Tab Extension is deemed by PC security analysts as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may host advertisements on your new tab and redirect you to promotional materials automatically. Additionally, the commercial offers coming through the Grand Burst Chrome New Tab Extension may not have undergone a security check and include links to compromised pages. You might want to read the following excerpts taken from grandburst.com/Privacy/:

'We may collect information that can personally identify you, such as your name and email address, as well as other information that does not personally identify you. Collected data may be used, supplemented, and shared with other parties for business, commercial, or marketing purposes, such as providing the Extension or Website features; improving or maintaining the Extension and Website; displaying relevant or advertising- supported content to Extension or Website users...'

• Excerpt 2:

'To provide and monetize the Extension or Website. In order to provide and monetize the Extension and Website, we may use and share with third parties the information we collect from and receive about users in order to provide you with customer support and respond to inquiries; to deliver content or advertising; to perform market research or measure Extension or Website usage...'

• Excerpt 3:

'The Company does not control any Third Party Content that may be displayed to you when you use the Extension or Website. We are neither affiliated with nor responsible for the privacy practices of any partners or third parties who advertise or link to any websites, products, services or offers through the Extension or Website, or who otherwise provide Third Party Content.'

Computer users may like the functionality offered on Home.grandburst.com to have quick links to Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Pinterest, and Gmail on their start page. However, the resources provided via Grand Burst may include insecure materials and links to compromised pages. The Grand Burst extension may urge users to disable software that blocks ads to benefit from Grand Burst. Many users may want to reconsider installing the Grand Burst Chrome New Tab Extension and remove related files with the help of a trusted anti-spyware scanner safely.