Is BookBeam: Extension safe?
BookBeam: Extension scrapes Amazon and Audible book metadata on every page visit and transmits it to app.bookbeam.io.
When visiting Amazon or Audible pages, the extension extracts book data including ASIN, title, price, ratings, author, publisher, and sales rank, then sends it to BookBeam's servers. Scraping rules and configuration are fetched from bookbeam.io at startup, giving the backend control over which page elements are targeted and how aggressively pages are fetched. The extension also writes its runtime ID to the page DOM, which any co-located script on Amazon domains can read and use to send messages to the extension's external message handler.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itBookBeam LLC - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
BookBeam LLC - 1 other listing 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 operator - 1 listing
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
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 1.4.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 1.4.6, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on amazon.com
*://*.amazon.com/
Read and change your data on amazon.de
*://*.amazon.de/
Read and change your data on amazon.it
*://*.amazon.it/
Read and change your data on amazon.co.uk
*://*.amazon.co.uk/
Read and change your data on audible.com
*://*.audible.com/
Read and change your data on audible.co.uk
*://*.audible.co.uk/
Read and change your data on amazon.fr
*://*.amazon.fr/
Read and change your data on amazon.es
*://*.amazon.es/
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
React to what is on a page without reading the page
declarativeContent
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed BookBeam: Extension 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.
- app.bookbeam.io
BookBeam: Extension sends data to app.bookbeam.io. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.