Provides a clean, minimal new tab page experience with quick access to search (via Bing through smoothsearch.online), popular website shortcuts, and current date/time display

User opens a new tab → sees a clean page with a search box, popular site shortcuts, and a clock → types a query in the search box → submitted to smoothsearch.online → redirects to Bing search results. No login or payment required at any step.

Target users: Chrome users who want a cleaner, simpler new tab page / Users who want quick access to popular sites and search from their new tab

Cannot verify what smoothsearch.online does with the anonymous UID or how it processes search queries
Cannot confirm if smoothsearch.online injects ads or monetizes search results on its end

Monetization

No paid features detected

No paid features exist. The store description explicitly states 'This extension is free to download from the Chrome Web store'. Source code contains no payment, subscription, billing, upgrade, or gating logic. All keyword hits for 'pro' were false positives: substring of 'description' in messages.json, substring of 'Promise' in background.js, and FontAwesome license in style.css. The 'upgrade' keyword from the deterministic heuristic was not found in any source file upon grep search.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension has no login UI, no authentication flow, and no account creation. The UID generated in background.js (line 10-20) is an anonymous random hex identifier stored locally and sent to smoothsearch.online only on install for tracking/attribution purposes — it is not a user account. The core workflow (new tab search, clock, shortcuts) works immediately without any credentials.

Permission risk

Medium-risk permissions

This estimate uses declared permissions and host permissions to assess access scope and sensitivity.

扩展能力较强：storage

Publisher

Adsbrain

Independent publisher

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Address: Hashomron 15 Givat-Koach 7318000 Israel

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