Is Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD by The Trav safe?
Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD sends Chrome top-sites URLs to Google's favicon service on new tabs.
When its custom new-tab page opens, the extension reads Chrome's top-sites list and creates Google favicon image requests for each saved site. Those requests include each top-site URL in the query string and use cleartext HTTP unless the user disables the top-sites setting.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.1.4. 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 api.nasa.gov
https://api.nasa.gov/*
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed APOD by The Trav 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.
- www.google.comwidely used
APOD by The Trav sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.