Is Ad-Free Adblock | Ultimate Ad Blocker safe?
Ad-Free Adblock sends the active tab URL to howfixes.com when you report an ad.
When you click the popup's report button, the extension reads the current tab URL and submits it with a timestamp. The report is sent to howfixes.com as part of the extension's ad reporting feature.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.5. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Store data in your browser
storage
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ad-Free Adblock | Ultimate Ad Blocker contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- howfixes.com
Ad-Free Adblock | Ultimate Ad Blocker sends data to howfixes.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.