Is Google Docs Dark Mode safe?
Dark Mode for Google Docs runs remote-controlled Google search tasks and reports visited URLs to its server.
After the extension has been installed for at least seven days, it opens a pinned Google Trends tab and receives search tasks from refresh.simpledarkmode.com. It types supplied keywords into Google, clicks selected results, records visited pages and search-result data, and sends the task results back to the same domain.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.9. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 2.1.49, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Google Docs Dark Mode 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.
- refresh.simpledarkmode.com
Google Docs Dark Mode sends data to refresh.simpledarkmode.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.