Places Near Me

Places Near Me replaces your new tab with quick access to Nearby Places & Yahoo web search.
What is Places Near Me?
Places Near Me is a Firefox add-on that replaces your new tab with quick access to Nearby Places & Yahoo web search. It allows you to view nearby places with a map and location pins, as well as providing custom web search functionality. The extension also collects anonymous technical information for product improvements and fraud detection purposes.
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Add-on stats

Rating: 2.50 (2)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2024-05-14)
Creation date: 2024-04-22
Weekly download count: 1
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Permissions:
  • *://placesnearme.org/*
  • tabs
  • search
  • storage
Size: 24.48K

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Add-on summary

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Add the Places Near Me & Custom Web Search extension to view Nearby Places with Yahoo Web Search. Simply click the extension icon and enter any place. Places Near Me extension will show a map with Location Pins near you. Drag the Map & Zoom In or Out and the Pins will adjust to the new Map View. Click Any of the Pins to learn more information about the Place.

This extension requests the following Anonymous Technical Information:

  • Install Date and User Agent details.

This data is collected to make improvements to our product, and help us in fraud detection, troubleshooting issues and tracking outages and cannot be used to personally identify a user.

If you decline this data collection, we may not be able to debug certain versions of Firefox against our Extension.

You can view our Privacy Policy here: https://placesnearme.org/pages/privacy.html

User reviews

by Jack Kingsley, 2024-10-11
worthless. won't work
by garcia, 2024-06-27
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Places Near Me requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Places Near Me is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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