Is Art Tab safe?
Art Tab sends precise location coordinates to OpenWeatherMap and top-site hostnames to Google for new-tab widgets.
Art Tab replaces the new-tab page with widgets that request browser geolocation for weather and read Chrome's top-sites list for shortcuts. It sends latitude and longitude to OpenWeatherMap for weather data, and loading favicons for displayed top sites sends each site's hostname to Google's favicon service.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itMNS Digital Media - 2 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
MNS Digital Media - 2 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
2 other listings published from this account, 14k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.0. 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.openweathermap.org
https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Read your physical location
geolocation
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Art 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.
- www.google.comwidely used
Art Tab sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api.openweathermap.orgwidely used
Art Tab sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 32 other extensions we have analysed send data here.