Is Rakuten Cashback: Browser-Erweiterung safe?
Rakuten Cashback sends visited merchant and search-result hostnames to Google Analytics during cashback prompt events.
When the extension displays or records cashback notifications and search-result offer events, it includes the current site host or linked merchant host in analytics messages. The background script posts those events to Google Analytics Measurement Protocol with extension event fields, a client ID, and, when present, a user UUID.
Who publishes itRakuten France - no other listings under this identity, 13 shared hostnames
Rakuten France - no other listings under this identity, 13 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 13 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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.8.0. 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
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Store data in your browser
storage
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Rakuten Cashback: Browser-Erweiterung 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-analytics.comwidely used
Rakuten Cashback: Browser-Erweiterung sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.