Is Alive Tab safe?
Alive Tab lets remote preferences replace the new-tab search handler and redirect search terms to a selected URL.
Alive Tab loads remote preferences from usealivetab.com when the new-tab page opens. Those preferences can replace the normal Chrome search action so typed search terms are appended to a server-selected URL, and the page also sends the user's public IP address to geoplugin.net over HTTP for weather lookup.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Alive Tab 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.
- api.openweathermap.orgwidely used
Alive Tab sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 32 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- www.geoplugin.net
Alive Tab sends data to www.geoplugin.net. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- usealivetab.com
Alive Tab sends data to usealivetab.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.