Is Cloaq - Location Guard & Locale Switcher safe?
Cloaq requests IP geolocation from ip-api.com over HTTP whenever its popup opens.
Opening the extension popup automatically contacts ip-api.com over cleartext HTTP before the user chooses the Match IP Address option. The response includes geolocation details such as country code, latitude, longitude, timezone, and the IP address query value, which the popup can use to fill location settings.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Attach to pages with the browser's debugger, which can read and rewrite anything on them
debugger
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Cloaq - Location Guard & Locale Switcher 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.
- ip-api.comwidely used
Cloaq - Location Guard & Locale Switcher sends data to ip-api.com. A widely used service: 62 other extensions we have analysed send data here.