Is Ecosia Dark Mode safe?
Ecosia Dark Mode sends your top visited site URLs to Google's favicon service on its new-tab page.
When its custom new-tab page loads, Ecosia Dark Mode reads Chrome's topSites list and builds favicon URLs that include each visited site's URL. Those image requests go to Google's favicon service, so Google receives the top-site URLs shown on the page.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itAidan H - no other listings under this identity
Aidan H - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4.3.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ecosia 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.
- www.google.comwidely used
Ecosia Dark Mode sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.