My Flight App
The My Flight App software from h[tt]p://myflightapp[.]com/MFA?# can be found on the Chrome Web Store by loading h[tt]ps://chrome.google[.]com/webstore/detail/my-flight-app/pghbndkpfjdcofebfihaalgbendggmlh. The My Flight App software is developed by a company called Polarity Technologies Ltd. that we have been tracking throughout 2017. Polarity does business by republishing old browser extensions and selling Internet usage statistics to markers on Yahoo. The My Flight App is classified as a renamed version of the Track My Flight New Tab Extension which is based on the BookmyFlight Extension. Polarity develops all three products mentioned above but they are published through proxy sites, and regular users will need to access the terms of use and privacy policy that. The My Flight App requires the following permissions in Google Chrome:
- Read and change your data on all myflightapp.com sites and home.myflightapp.com.
- Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.
- Read your browsing history.
- Detect your physical location.
- Manage your apps, extensions, and themes.
You may want to know that the My Flight App changes your new tab page to home.myflightapp.com and your primary search provider to search.myflightapp.com. These domains act as redirect-gateways to a customized version of Yahoo. The same behavior was found in Track My Flight New Tab and BookmyFlight. The last two extensions were found to change the new tab page to Search.htrackmyflight.co and Search.bookmyflight.co that are identical to Home.myflightapp.com except for the logo in the top left corner. Web surfers who are not fans of Yahoo might not like the changes made by the My Flight App to their browser. The My Flight App new tab page does not allow users to track flights via home.myflightapp.com — it redirects Web surfers to h[tt]ps://flightaware[.]com/live, h[tt]ps://www.flightstats[.]com/v2/flight-tracker/search/advanced and https://www.cheapoair[.]com which are not affiliated with Polarity. The new tab powered by Home.myflightapp.com does not allow for customizations and only redirects users to third-party services. My Flight App by myflightapp[.]com is categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program PUP (PUP) that you can remove safely with the help of a reputable security scanner.
