Is Email Sender Icons by cloudHQ safe?

Medium risk

Email Sender Icons by cloudHQ sends Gmail account email addresses to cloudHQ during Gmail page loads.

When Gmail loads, the extension reads the active Gmail address and checks Gmail account-switcher slots for other email addresses. It posts those addresses to cloudHQ's pre-user-check endpoint as part of its account-check flow.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

cloudHQv1.0.1.3Chrome Web Store
40Risk
Who publishes it

cloudHQ LLC - 13 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
cloudHQ
Declared legal entity
cloudHQ LLC
Registered address
2247 29th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94116-1738, US
Registered contact
cloudHQ LLC

Same store account

13 other listings published from this account, 137k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

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 1.0.1.3. 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 mail.google.com

    https://mail.google.com/

  • Read and change your data on inbox.google.com

    https://inbox.google.com/

  • Read and change your data on www.cloudhq.net

    https://www.cloudhq.net/

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Keep running in the background while your browser is open

    background

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Email Sender Icons by cloudHQ 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.cloudhq.netwidely used

    Email Sender Icons by cloudHQ sends data to www.cloudhq.net. A widely used service: 38 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

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