Is Black Wallpaper safe?
Black Wallpaper sends up to 10 top visited site URLs to Google's favicon service on the new-tab page.
When the new-tab page opens, the extension asks Chrome for the user's top visited sites and renders up to 10 of them. It builds each site entry with a Google favicon image URL that includes the visited page URL, so loading the page sends those URLs to Google's favicon service.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 6.19.124.45. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Store data in your browser
storage
Run searches with your default search engine
search
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Black Wallpaper 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.com/s2/faviconswidely used
Black Wallpaper sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.