What is Shipment Trackers?
Did you download Shipment Trackers onto your Google Chrome browser purposefully? If you did, you must have expected beneficial services. If you have no idea where this extension has come from, perhaps you recently downloaded something else, and the potentially unwanted program (PUP) came bundled with it? Of course, the extension works the same regardless of how you download it, but if you have let it in along with other unfamiliar pieces of software, it is crucial that you examine your operating system. We recommend doing that with the help of a trusted and a legitimate malware scanner. At the end of the day, even if you downloaded the PUP from shipmentrackers.com and the Chrome web store (the installer can be found at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shipment-trackers/capblhlnijkiglhdacnlboimeikjnnig/), it is very odd. Do you know why you should delete Shipment Trackers? Continue reading, and you will find out.
How does Shipment Trackers work?
Shipment Trackers is very similar to Login to My Email, Find A Flight Pro, and other well-known extensions that were created by Eightpoint Technologies. In the past, this company was known as Mindspark Interactive Network, which is why the PUP might still be identified and removed as a Mindspark Toolbar by the anti-malware tool you use to detect threats. All of these extensions are introduced as helpful tools, but all of them appear to serve one single purpose – advertising. Sure, when you download Shipment Trackers, your New Tab page and default search provider are replaced with hp.hshipmentrackers.com, and this webpage offers links to canadapost.ca, tnt.com, usps.com, ups.com, fedex.com, dhl.com, and other legitimate websites. If you click these links, you are routed to the websites, where you can actually track packages. That means that the PUP itself does not track packages and, therefore, is kind of useless. This is one of the reasons why it is identified as a PUP in the first place. The second reason for that is that the search tool it offers is unreliable.
Whether you enter search keywords into the browser’s address bar or the search dialog box that is introduced via hp.hshipmentrackers.com, you are redirected to search.yahoo.com. Yahoo Search is in the top 10 search engines in the world, and so it is no wonder why the creator of Shipment Trackers has decided to employ it. Furthermore, Yahoo makes it easy for third parties to “customize” the service. How does that work? The PUP takes your search queries and sends them via its own engine to search.yahoo.com. You might think that you are being shown normal results, but in reality, you are introduced to sponsored content along with normal results. As the Eightpoint Technologies Privacy Policy informs, third parties can show ads via the service, and they can also use some user-related information that the PUP collects using cookies. This way, the sponsored links can become much more attractive. Unfortunately, there’s too little known about the advertisers who use Shipment Trackers, and so it would be irresponsible to claim that the results can be trusted.
How to delete Shipment Trackers
To conclude things, Shipment Trackers is not a beneficial extension, and if you use its search tool, you could end up interacting with potentially unreliable links. Furthermore, the PUP can track your activity to collect data that can also be shared with third-party advertisers. Some users might choose to ignore all of this just because the PUP presents a list of useful links. Well, you can easily bookmark them. Tap Ctrl+Shift+B keys to show the Bookmarks bar on Chrome, visit the website, access to which you want to have via your browser, and click the star symbol on the right of the URL to bookmark it. It’s that easy. The removal of Shipment Trackers is easy as well. First, scan your system to check whether or not you have other threats to deal with. If you do not, you can follow the instructions below. If threats are found, consider employing an anti-malware tool that will inspect your entire system and delete malicious threats automatically.
Removal Guide
- Launch Google Chrome.
- Enter chrome://extensions/ into the address bar.
- Remove the extension you no longer trust or want to use.
- Enter chrome://settings/clearBrowserData into the address bar.
- Click the Advanced tab at the top of the menu.
- Select a time range in which the PUP was installed.
- Select the boxes of the data you want to clear.
- Click Clear data and then restart the browser.
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