Is Rakuten Button Canada: Get Cash Back for Shopping safe?
Rakuten Button Canada sends browsing session events and order confirmation page HTML to Rakuten servers on merchant sites.
On merchant sites where cashback is available, the extension logs session activity — including the current URL, user ID, session ID, and browser agent — to bl.ecbsn.com. When an order confirmation page is detected, the full HTML of that page is compressed and POSTed to capture.ecbsn.com along with the current URL, store details, and timing data. On Firefox, a consent prompt is shown before data collection begins; on other browsers, data collection is enabled by default.
Who publishes itRakuten - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
Rakuten - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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 7.8.1. 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>
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Rakuten Button Canada: Get Cash Back for Shopping 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.
- capture.ecbsn.com
Rakuten Button Canada: Get Cash Back for Shopping sends data to capture.ecbsn.com. 5 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- bl.ecbsn.com
Rakuten Button Canada: Get Cash Back for Shopping sends data to bl.ecbsn.com. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.