Is BlankSlate safe?
BlankSlate sends the user's public IP address to two third-party lookup services to auto-locate the new-tab weather widget.
On every new tab, if no city has been manually set (or the cached weather data is more than 30 minutes old), BlankSlate fetches the browser's public IP address from api.ipify.org and sends that IP to ipapi.co to resolve a city name, which is then used to request weather data from openweathermap.org. This happens automatically with no user prompt or opt-in, though the extension requests no special browser permissions to do it.
Who publishes itMusheer Alam - no other listings under this identity
Musheer Alam - no other listings under this identity
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed BlankSlate 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.ipify.orgwidely used
BlankSlate sends data to api.ipify.org. A widely used service: 58 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- api.openweathermap.orgwidely used
BlankSlate sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 33 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- ipapi.co
BlankSlate sends data to ipapi.co. 20 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.