Sports Chrome Extension
The 'Sports' Chrome Extension from h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co is promoted to enable quick access to sports results and highlights on the new tab page in your Web browser. The 'Sports' Chrome Extension is designed to change the new tab settings in browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome so that users are shown the page at h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co. The 'Sports' New Tab offers quick links to Espn.com, Nfl.com/big-play-highlights and ESPN's YouTube channel including a custom search by Yahoo. Installing the 'Sports' Chrome Extension requires users to grant it the following privileges:
- Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.
- Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.
- Manage your apps, extensions and themes.
The 'Sports' Chrome Extension can be installed and used for free thanks to the monetization model that is employed by the extension's developer — Polarity Technologies Ltd. The 'Sports' New Tab powered by h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co shows personalized advertisements and comes with a bulk of tracking cookies. Polarity allows advertising publishers to take advantage of the data collected by the 'Sports' Chrome Extension and create advertising profiles about users. The 'Sports' Chrome Extension is known to gather information like your Internet history, IP address, ads you click on, extensions and applications you have installed. The data collected via the 'Sports' Chrome Extension is shared by Polarity with advertisers and marketers so that they can keep the 'Sports' New Tab free.
However, you can load h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co without installing the ' Sports' Chrome Extension, but advertisers can still send you tracking cookies, record your input at h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co and monitor the search results you follow on Search.yahoo.com. The 'Sports' application from h[tt]p://sports.mysearches[.]co developed by Polarity Technologies Ltd is deemed as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). PC users who do not like the monetization model for the 'Sports' Chrome Extension may wish to have it removed by running a reliable anti-spyware scanner.
