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Tinychill Search

Posted: February 17, 2020

Tinychill Search (also called Tinychill) is a browser add-on that is compatible with modern Web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. The extension may be promoted as a helpful utility that will enhance the Web browser's search feature, and make it easier to find relevant content. However, users who install Tinychill Search may soon realize that the changes brought by this add-on are not very helpful and, instead, they may turn out to worsen their Web browsing experience.

One of the major changes that Tinychill Search is known for is replacing the Web browser's default search aggregator with Feed.tinychill.com. This change is not an unsafe one, but it will make it, so all of the user's searches are queried through Feed.tinychill.com. This will allow the website's administrator to collect information about the user's search preferences, and then use this information to spawn relevant advertisements on Feed.tinychill.com. In addition to maybe seeing more advertisements, the users of Feed.tinychill.com may end up seeing sponsored search results on top of the results.

Tinychill Search is categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), and its removal can be accomplished either manually or with the use of PC security software. Keep in mind that it is not mandatory to remove this application, but you should get rid of it definitely if you are not a fan of the changes it brought.

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