Search Swift

The Search Swift software is published by a marketing company called Polarity Technologies Ltd on the Chrome Web Store — h[tt]ps://chrome.google[.]com/webstore/detail/search-swift/oplpncpofapcfpaffmackolcdiljcdli where it is presented as a search services provider. The Search Swift extension is designed to change your primary search provider to Search.searchswift.co. The Search Swift app was recorded to run on 64,629 devices at the time of research, but there are no reviews on any language. We suspect the statistics may be falsified to claim credibility for the application. The installation of the Search Swift extension is preceded by a notification that says:

’Add “Search Swift”?
It can:
• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes.
• Change your search settings to: search.searchswift.co’

The search service from Search Swift is not a standalone technology. PC users who install the Search Swift extension are rerouted via Search.searchswift.co to a Yahoo, and the Omnibox features an address that looks like this:

h[tt]ps://search.yahoo[.]com/yhs/search?hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbyhp&p=[search terms]¶m2=[unique id]¶m3=searchswift_4.0~[default system language]~0¶m4=tt~Chrome~[search terms]~[random characters]¶m1=[date]&type=&guccounter=

The Search Swift extension by Polarity Technologies Ltd is deemed as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that performs redirects via an insecure domain — h[tt]p://search.searchswift[.]co. The Search Swift application is not endorsed by Yahoo and Polarity uses the application to collect non-personally identifiable information from users and help ad publishers improve target advertisement campaigns. The Search Swift extension may be “free to install,” but third parties monetize your Internet traffic while you are forced to experience redirects to Yahoo. You can find the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for Search Swift at h[tt]p://searchswift[.]co/Legal/Privacy and h[tt]p://searchswift[.]co/Legal/Terms. PC users who may not appreciate the Search Swift software product from Polarity may want to remove it and related persistent tracking Web beacons with the help of a trusted anti-spyware instrument.