# Yep Search: Private, Pro-Creator 2026 AI Discovery

> Set Yep as your default for a private, 90/10 revenue-sharing search. Access independent results that reward creators and fuel 2026 AI-powered discovery. The ethical alternative to Big Tech—put money back in creators’ pockets while you search!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/yep-search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/yep-search)

## Overview

- **ID:** `yep-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Handmade Internet Treasures
- **Category:** download-management,privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-20
- **First published:** 2025-07-17
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yep-search/)
- **Website:** [https://ko-fi.com/handmadeinternettreasures](https://ko-fi.com/handmadeinternettreasures)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yep-search/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yep-search/privacy/)

## Description

Make Yep as your search engine for 2026. 

Yep Search: Private & Share Revenue with Creators

Because Yep shares ad profit with creators and protects your privacy. Creators who build partnership & collaboration will find passive income source to make money online and get financial freedom now.

Yep is a search engine from the ground up so that we can give 90% of ad revenue to content creators.

This Handmade Internet Treasure makes Yep your default search engine and your homepage. We have ensured that you can easily access Yep using the keywords @yep even if you change back your default search engine to point to something else.

<strong>Contribute liberally. Make a difference.</strong> We need your love and active support now. Please participate in this ethical mission to develop free and open source software which is free of any spyware, malware, dark patterns, or other unethical abuse of end users' trust by visiting our donation page below and giving us a tip!
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<strong>Creating Ethical &amp; Privacy-oriented Mozilla Firefox Add-ons. 100% hand coded software - so you are assured these add-ons will never, ever contain AI slop and will work reliably every time you use it. Now. Always.</strong>

## Rankings

- #39,518 — Overall
- #39 — spyware
- #45 — discover
- #164 — create

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can change search providers, which could redirect searches to malicious sites, posing moderate risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/yep-search)