Is BMW M8 Competition safe?
BMW M8 Competition sends user-added new tab shortcut URLs to Google's favicon service.
When you add a custom shortcut on the extension's new tab page, the extension stores that URL locally and uses it to request an icon from Google. Each rendered custom shortcut can place the shortcut URL in a request to Google's favicon endpoint; the reviewed claim did not show page content or credentials being sent.
Who publishes itWalltab Themes - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Walltab Themes - 2 other listings from the same operator, none 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, 7k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4.5. 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 BMW M8 Competition 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
BMW M8 Competition sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.