Is CSDN·浏览器助手 safe?
CSDN browser assistant adds a clip button to every website and reports your CSDN account cookies and page views to CSDN's tracking servers.
Registered on every site, the extension injects a fixed clip ('C笔记') button that, when clicked, reads the page title, URL, hostname, and largest image into its collect panel. Its service worker reads your CSDN account cookies (UserName, UserNick and other c_* cookies) and bundles them into page-view and click beacons sent to event.csdn.net, and writes the extension's ID, install UUID, and version into .csdn.net cookies. The new-tab search box also forwards each keystroke of your query to Google, Bing, Zhihu, and CSDN suggestion APIs.
Who publishes itCSDN - 4 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
CSDN - 4 other listings 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
4 other listings published from this account, 15k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 4 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.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.6. 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
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Read and change your full browsing history
history
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed CSDN·浏览器助手 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.
- suggestqueries.google.com
CSDN·浏览器助手 sends data to suggestqueries.google.com. 7 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- api.bing.com
CSDN·浏览器助手 sends data to api.bing.com. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.
- www.zhihu.com
CSDN·浏览器助手 sends data to www.zhihu.com. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.
- event.csdn.net
CSDN·浏览器助手 sends data to event.csdn.net. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.
- so.csdn.net
CSDN·浏览器助手 sends data to so.csdn.net. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.