Yellow Search Redirects - How to remove

Yellow Search is a browser add-on. It promises to improve your search results, however, it doesn’t do more than replace your default search engine and collect data on your browsing habits.

When Yellow Search is installed, it sets Yellow-search.com as your default search engine. Then, every time you search the web, your query goes to Yellow-search.com.

Although Yellow-search.com’s marketing shows what looks like a custom search engine, it normally forwards search queries to Bing.com.

Yellow Search in short:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Yellow Search affects your browser	It takes over the default search engine and controls what search results you see, it reads your browsing data.
Problems and issues	Yellow Search is not good for privacy, it lacks valuable features – it’s basically a search hijacker.
How to delete Yellow Search	Uninstall it from your browser, check the search settings of your browser, see if there are other unwanted items on your device (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Malwarebytes, etc.).

What is Yellow Search?

Yellow Search takes over your default search engine

Yellow Search is a browser add-on. It offers to replace your default search engine with its own, one that will help you find results based on your country and language. But mainstream search engines like Google already base your results on your location and language, so that’s hardly a novel feature.

So, when you install Yellow Search, it makes Yellow-search.com your default search engine. That’s really it.

Yellow Search makes it so that your web search results are delivered by Bing. It does not make Bing.com your default search engine, though. It just makes Yellow-search.com your default search engine and then allows Yellow-search.com to decide what results you will see.

Other sites that Yellow-search.com may make you visit include Zapmeta.com, Kensaq.com, Top10answers.com, Seekweb.com, etc.

Why do people install Yellow Search?

In May, Yellow-search.com was estimated to get around a million monthly visits by the web analytics site Similarweb.com, so it seems to be quite popular – despite its utter lack of any helpful features.

By the way, there’s something strange about Yellow Search’s reviews on the Chrome Web Store:

• Most of the reviews are very short – phrases like “Love it”, “This is awesome!”, and “very cute”.
• Some of the reviews are longer, but they discuss features that the Yellow Search extension does not even have, such as timers, sound effects, wallpapers, notes, discounts, etc.
• All the reviews give Yellow Search four or five stars – not even the best extensions have such universally positive reception.

I don’t know if Yellow Search’s reviews are fake, but they kind of look fake. This is not necessarily the fault of Yellow Search’s developers, but it does not inspire trust. It could mean that there’s something iffy about how people install Yellow Search. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’re some deceptive installation tactics employed to get people to install Yellow Search.

It tracks your data

Based on Yellow-search.com’s privacy policy, it appears that Yellow Search is related to yellowHEAD, an online marketing company. That’s not surprising, as the main function of Yellow Search and similar browser extensions is to show ads, direct traffic to certain websites, and collect data.

Browser extensions are good at these things, much better than websites. This is because extensions can ask to see your browsing history, open and close browser tabs, and even control some browser settings. Websites can’t do these things.

According to Yellow-search.com’s privacy policy, this site/extension collects data on what ads its users see and how they interact with those ads. When you have Yellow Search installed, it watches how you interact with certain content online. This helps Yellow-search.com’s owners deliver better services to advertisers.

Yellow Search can collect data such as your IP address, location, your advertising identifiers, and data about your devices. Surprisingly, the privacy policy doesn’t talk about search history, even though it could log it if it wanted to.

How to remove Yellow Search

To stop the redirects and data tracking done by Yellow-search.com, you only need to uninstall the Yellow Search extension.

Then, look at the default search engine settings in your browser. Change the settings if you want. You can set any search engine you like as the default.

If you experience problems with ads and redirects, then check what other extensions you have installed on your browser. See what programs are installed on your computer. You might use the help of anti-malware tools, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Malwarebytes, and others. They can help you find malicious and potentially unwanted items and remove them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manual removal instructions

TopHow To remove Yellow Search Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Yellow Search Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Yellow Search Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Yellow Search Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Yellow Search Redirects from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Yellow Search Redirects related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Yellow Search Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.