Is Counting Characters - #1 Letter & Word Count safe?
Counting Characters sends the active tab URL to countingcharacters.com when users click its webpage word-count link.
The popup reads the active tab URL and appends it to an HTTP link for countingcharacters.com's website word counter. The URL is sent when the user clicks the Count Total Words of This Web Page button, rather than automatically on every page load.
Who publishes itMohit Harjai - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Mohit Harjai - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 30k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.8. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Counting Characters - #1 Letter & Word Count 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.countingcharacters.com
Counting Characters - #1 Letter & Word Count sends data to www.countingcharacters.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.