Is Buy Box 17 safe?
Buy Box 17 sends product details and a persistent ID from retailer pages to a price-comparison server.
On shopping pages the extension reads the product title, price and codes such as SKU, MPN and UPC, and sends them with a stored unique ID to its price and coupon lookup service. A bundled analytics SDK also sets long-lived cross-site ID cookies and posts usage events, reporting under the name CNET Shopping, to a separate ingest server.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itBuy Box 17 - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
Buy Box 17 - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 4 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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 1.2.9.12. 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 every site you visit
http://*/ and 1 more
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Keep running in the background while your browser is open
background
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Buy Box 17 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.
- ingest.make.rvapps.io
Buy Box 17 sends data to ingest.make.rvapps.io. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- tb.getinvisiblehand.com
Buy Box 17 sends data to tb.getinvisiblehand.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.