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This extension was removed from the Chrome Web Store as malware. Do not install it.Extension: Focus Sounds

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Focus Sounds

ID: ocbnmfpnaiighppeopgkoecicpiianaa

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇺🇸English

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

1.2

Size

34.34 MB

Rating

4.5/5

Reviews

Users

22,733

Type

Extension

Updated

Sep 4, 2023

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: Focus SoundsView Profile
Privacy: Privacy Policy
Help: Help Center
Country: IL
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: Yes
Mailbox exists: Yes
Address: Hazerem 10 st. Tel Aviv 6816850 IL
Website: Visit

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Total Users

45,302

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Open a New search tab with a selection of ambience sounds to help you focus on your projects

Enhance your focus. New search tab with a selection of ambience sounds made for you. Select from different sound tracks for your preferred atmosphere and mood. Play your selected ambience sound wherever you are on the web. The search functionality on the New Tab will be provided by Microsoft Bing. No change to your default search settings is made. Privacy policy: https://focus-sounds.site/privacy-policy/ EULA: https://focus-sounds.site/terms/ All sound tracks are sourced from: https://pixabay.com/music/ Soundtracks Images are sourced from: https://codepen.io/steveeeie/pen/NVWMEM

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Versions

+0.08%(+18 users)

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3 versions released in this period

Rating Count

Total: 12 ratings

Average Rating

Current: 4.33 / 5.0+4.33

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Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.0 Code review	7

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.0	7

Files with findings

5 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

images/stop.html2
views/newtab.html2
background.js1
js/audio.js1
views/audio.html1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Remote Code Loading	critical	images/stop.html (line 14)	The extension ships a full third-party HTML page (a saved copy of freeiconspng.com) inside its bundle. It loads Google AdSense (adsbygoogle.js), jQuery, masonry, lazyload, and cookieconsent scripts from external CDNs …	1.0
2	Tracking	high	images/stop.html (line 78)	Same stop.html embeds AddThis-style social trackers and a cookie-consent banner declaring 'This website uses cookies to analyze traffic and for advertisements.' These are tracking/advertising components running inside…	1.0
3	Unauthorized Data Collection	high	views/newtab.html (line 102)	The extension overrides chrome's new-tab page (chrome_url_overrides.newtab) with a page whose primary search box silently submits all queries to bing.com instead of the user's configured default search engine. Combine…	1.0
4	Obfuscation	medium	background.js (line 84)	The service worker spawns an unfocused 1x1-pixel popup window at the top-left of the screen as the audio host. While here it is justified as a workaround for MV3 audio playback, this exact pattern (hidden, near-invisi…	1.0
5	Obfuscation	medium	js/audio.js (line 1)	The hidden audio window further shrinks itself to 0x0 with window.resizeTo(0,0) on load, reinforcing the concealment of the popup that background.js spawned. Auto-shrinking a window to zero pixels is a classic stealth…	1.0
6	Tracking	medium	views/audio.html (line 4)	audio.html loads its favicon from an external WordPress site (zestgeek.com). Each invocation of the hidden background audio window pings zestgeek.com, which functions as a beacon revealing every play action and the us…	1.0
7	Remote Code Loading	low	views/newtab.html (line 16)	The new-tab override pulls a remote stylesheet (and via @font-face, remote font files) from cdnjs.cloudflare.com on every new tab. This causes a network request to a third-party CDN on every new tab open, which is an …	1.0

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clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
www.w3.org	/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
www.w3.org	/1999/xlink	http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink
www.w3.org	/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
ns.adobe.com	/tiff/1.0/	http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/
www.w3.org	/1999/xhtml	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
pagead2.googlesyndication.com	-	https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com
ajax.googleapis.com	-	https://ajax.googleapis.com
html5shim.googlecode.com	-	https://html5shim.googlecode.com

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4.4 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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Decnt, but could use some improvements.

Louise H. Holland·30 Aug 2023

Practical and enhances web searching. A good find.

Virginia Ruiz·24 Aug 2023

Good extension. I like how it changes the way I browse.

Louis Bates·19 Aug 2023

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Focus Sounds

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