News & Weather extensions

Security reviews of 97 News & Weather browser extensions, each rated on what its code does when it runs.

  1. d%C3%B3lar-turismo-hoje

    Pedro Menezes

    Clean

    This extension calculates the tourism dollar exchange rate against the Brazilian real.

  2. Forecastfox - Weather Forecast

    Oleksandr

    Clean

    Shows current weather and forecasts in the browser toolbar for chosen locations.

  3. Get RSS Feed URL for Slick RSS

    gandfhdev

    Clean

    Displays RSS and Atom feed URLs found for the current website.

  4. Get Weather Now

    Calc Team

    Low

    Get Weather Now sends automatic geolocation requests to ipinfo.io using a bundled API token.

  5. Gold and Silver Prices

    INCAJATA

    Clean

    Shows real-time gold and silver prices in a browser popup.

  6. HealthGuard

    NewsGuard Technologies, Inc.

    Low

    HealthGuard embeds NewsGuard API credentials and uses them to request anonymous tokens and content-label services.

  7. Holiday Calendar

    gaoming13

    Low

    Holiday Calendar fetches regional calendar data over plaintext HTTP from calendar-crx.diary8.com.

  8. Kaldata.com

    kal

    Clean

    Shows Bulgarian tech news updates from Kaldata.com in Chrome.

  9. LOVE-G RSS Reader2

    www.harurow

    Clean

    This extension provides a simple RSS reader with automatic feed updates.

  10. La rep Bypass PayWall

    Dan Monceau

    Clean

    This extension changes the presentation of articles on larep.fr for easier reading.

  11. MANISH

    nire0510

    Low

    MANISH loads Google Material Icons over plaintext HTTP when its extension UI pages open.

  12. My Weather

    Mediastinct

    Low

    My Weather sends your IP-based location to weather services when opening its new-tab page.

  13. OMG! Ubuntu!

    Ohso

    Clean

    Shows the latest OMG! Ubuntu posts from the toolbar with unread counts and notifications.

  14. PremierLeague Stats

    softweart

    Medium

    PremierLeague Stats sends new-tab search terms to prls.premierleaguestats-ext.com with a tracking ID.

  15. Scenery Tab

    ScenK

    Low

    Scenery Tab sends your precise location coordinates to OpenWeatherMap for local weather on the new tab page.

  16. Techgenyz

    Techgenyz

    Clean

    Shows the latest Techgenyz technology news headlines from the browser.

  17. The Hindu

    The Hindu Group

    Clean

    This extension provides access to news and updates from The Hindu’s publications.

  18. Weather & Time (multi-city)

    AlexKataev

    Low

    Weather & Time (multi-city) sends city searches to HERE and saved city coordinates to OpenWeather for forecasts.

  19. Weather

    LinangData

    Low

    Weather Forecast loads HTML and links from linangdata.com into its popup and opens server-chosen tabs.

  20. News Hub kiosk

    WWEvents

    Low

    News Hub kiosk renders operator-controlled remote message text into the page as raw HTML before any sanitization runs.

  21. CNN News

    jjoshmurray

    Low

    CNN U.S. inserts news feed content from notifiernews.com into its popup using unescaped HTML.

  22. WeatherTab

    Tim

    Clean

    Weather Tab sends your device location and typed city searches to weatherextension.com to show weather.

  23. Fox News Side panel MeaVana

    MeaVana

    Low

    Fox News Side panel MeaVana removes Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options headers from responses on every site.

  24. The New York Times News

    lukasburnord

    Low

    The New York Times News sources every headline, image, and click-through link from a third-party server, notifiernews.com, not NYT.

  25. Notifier for BBC News

    killianbyrnne

    Low

    Notifier for BBC News renders its remote feed into the popup with unescaped HTML, exposing it to markup injection and forced navigation.

  26. BBC Sport

    killianbyrnne

    Low

    BBC Sport renders remote feed content in its popup via unescaped HTML and reports a persistent device ID to its feed server.

  27. Vetted

    willt.edwards

    Medium
  28. The Broader View

    theconversation.social

    Clean

    The Broader View sends the URL of pages you visit or click to its own server when the site matches a remotely-fetched list.

  29. ClearContext

    gagandeepgutta

    Low

    ClearContext sends the full URL of every page you load to api.clearcontext.co to look up a news bias rating.

  30. Fish Radar: US Fishing Forecast

    Msmaxim

    Low

    Fish Radar sends your location to fishing-report.ru and inserts the server's response into the popup without sanitizing it.

  31. NewsLens

    vrenduchintala17

    Clean

    NewsLens sends the hostname of every site you visit to its own server each time you open the popup.

  32. PolyPoll

    samatcrispy

    High
  33. beautiful roses

    Low

    Beautiful Roses replaces the New Tab page with a NYTimes Technology RSS feed rendered via unescaped innerHTML.

  34. Deer

    Low

    Deer's new-tab page routes its Amazon shortcut icon through the vendor's own domain instead of amazon.com.

  35. Similar Feed

    Low

    Similar Feed automatically reads up to 500 recent history items and all bookmarks each day and sends up to 30 of them to a backend.

  36. WealthPipe

    ryanwfiorini

    Medium

    WealthPipe sends the full URL of every site you visit or switch to to its own server, with no opt-in.

  37. Politipipe

    ryanwfiorini

    Clean

    Politipipe sends the full URL of every http/https page you visit to politipipe.com to fetch an article rating.