Is Easy How To safe?
Easy How To sends typed new-tab searches to easyhowto.co and uses IP-based location to request weather data.
Easy How To's new-tab page sends text entered into its search boxes to easyhowto.co autosuggest endpoints as the user types. Its weather widget derives the user's city and state through geoip-js.com and then requests local weather from OpenWeatherMap.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Run searches with your default search engine
search
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Easy How To 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.
- api.openweathermap.orgwidely used
Easy How To sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 32 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- geoip-js.com
Easy How To sends data to geoip-js.com. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- easyhowto.co
Easy How To sends data to easyhowto.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.