Newz Finder

Newz Finder

Brings your news search and digesting experience to your address bar.

What is Newz Finder?
"Newz Finder" is a Chrome extension designed to optimize your fragmented internet browsing time. It allows you to search and read news directly from your address bar. With its manual and automatic modes, fetching news has never been so easy. Increase your productivity by customizing your news preferences according to your taste in the extension's Settings section.
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Stats
Users: 60,000+
Rating: 4.22 (40)
Version: 3.0.1 (Last updated: 2021-01-12)
Creation date: 2020-08-24
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Size: 194.56K
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Summary

This extension is a Chrome browser extension built to help you utilize your fragmented internet browsing time by bringing your news search and reading directly to your address bar. When it’s on manual mode, you need to type “@news” in your address bar, followed by the topic you want to look for, and click on the autocomplete suggestion to the result page. Once it’s set on automatic mode, you can type directly in your address bar the headlines/topics you look for and click on the autocomplete suggestions to see the results.

You can also select your favorite news categories from the extension’s dashboard (up to 3 categories), so when you type in your address bar, we’ll bring you the latest headlines to your autocomplete suggestion. Customize your extension experience by selecting your default search engine, news provider, country, language, and categories inside the extension’s Settings section.

Permissions used and reasons:

  1. Access to “cookies” (optional). We require this permission to provide your customized options for Settings. It’s optional because if you don’t change any default settings, we will not need it.
  2. Change your default search engine to our private domain search.mybrowsingsafety.pro, powered by Yahoo. We require this permission to use our private domain as a placeholder and to provide you the functionality in the autocomplete suggestions of your address bar. Inside this extension, we support Yahoo, Google, and Bing. You can switch to a different provider at any time inside the Settings section.

How to remove this extension?

If you want to remove our extension, go to “Settings” on Chrome, and find our extension in the “Extensions” tab. Click “remove”. Alternatively, you can right-click on the extension’s icon on your browser and select “Uninstall” from the drop-down menu.

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Good safety protection
  • Helps prevent laptop crashes
  • Works as advertised
Cons
  • Unclear functionality
  • Some users perceive it as unnecessary
  • Some users feel it promotes Google unnecessarily
Most mentioned
  • Safety
  • Prevents crashes
  • Unclear purpose
Recent reviews
like it
by Mahesh Singh Mahesh Singh, 2020-03-03

love it
by Matthew Mckoy Matthew Mckoy, 2020-02-27

it is a good protection for your HTTP access.
by Niraj Thapa Niraj Thapa, 2020-02-23
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Safety
Risk impact

Newz Finder is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Newz Finder has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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