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Weather Reports New Tab

Posted: February 20, 2018

The Weather Reports New Tab is an add-on, which users are likely to install when they want to use their Web browser to receive instant updates regarding the local weather conditions, as well as the forecast. While this functionality might sound useful, we'd like to assure you that the Weather Reports New Tab is not the best choice available since this add-on demands permission to tamper with the Chrome's settings. The changes that the Weather Reports New Tab brings are not harmful since they only concern the search aggregator and the default new tab page but some users are likely to find them annoying since the websites that the add-on promotes might not be as credible as Bing, Yahoo, Google, or other commonly used new tab pages.

In addition to bringing potentially unwanted changes, the Weather Reports New Tab also has questionable functionality since there are numerous official weather forecast add-ons, which can provide you with accurate weather details without hijacking your browser's settings to promote a 3rd-party website.

The page that the Weather Reports New Tab promotes does not seem dubious and, in fact, it might work properly at the moment. However, since the Weather Reports New Tab is not affiliated with a reputable company or organization, we can't guarantee that the credibility of its website will persist.

Users who have added the Weather Reports New Tab to their web browser recently and want to reverse the settings it brought can do that by simply removing the add-on in question. One way to accomplish this task is to run a credible PC security tool since the Weather Reports New Tab is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). An alternative method is to uninstall the Weather Reports New Tab extension by using Chrome's settings panel manually.

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