Is Cookie Guard safe?
Cookie Guard writes detected affiliate cookie details into page-visible alerts and sessionStorage.
Cookie Guard displays detected affiliate cookie names, domains, and truncated values in alerts injected into the active page, and it stores the alert data in that page's sessionStorage. Because its content script runs on HTTP and HTTPS pages, a page that receives an alert can read those injected DOM and sessionStorage values. It also injects a Google Fonts stylesheet into HTTP and HTTPS pages, creating page subresource requests to Google Fonts.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.6. 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://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Cookie Guard 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.
- fonts.googleapis.comwidely used
Cookie Guard sends data to fonts.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 123 other extensions we have analysed send data here.