Is Download with Free Download Manager (FDM) safe?
Download with Free Download Manager sends download URLs and referrers to its local native client.
When enabled, it watches new HTTP and FTP downloads, pauses matching browser downloads, and hands the URL, referrer, filename, and user agent to the configured Free Download Manager executable through a native messaging host. Its context-menu and in-page download actions can also pass the selected link or media URL plus the current page URL as referrer to that local client.
Who publishes itJoe Ertaba - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.3.5. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Download with Free Download Manager (FDM) 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.
- com.add0n.native_client
Download with Free Download Manager (FDM) sends data to com.add0n.native_client. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.