Is Flip YouTube and turn youtube video sideways safe?

Medium risk

Flip YouTube and turn youtube video sideways sends YouTube page URLs and video IDs to analytics.wrongorbit.com.

On YouTube pages, the extension records the current watch, Shorts, or embed URL, the page referrer, the video ID, and active rotate, flip, and scale settings when it tracks video-effect usage. Its background script posts those analytics events to analytics.wrongorbit.com with browser context such as screen size and language.

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Who publishes it

Petr Lukovkin - no other listings under this identity

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Publisher
Petr Lukovkin
Registered address
Äußere Bayreuther Straße 148, Nürnberg 90411, DE
Registered contact
Petr Lukovkin

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Findings

YouTube effects send video IDs and page URLs to Wrong Orbit analytics

When you use Flip YouTube's rotate, flip, or scale effects, the extension records the current video ID and page URL, forwarding those usage events, including referring page and tab context, to https://analytics.wrongorbit.com/api/send.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

Uses rotate, flip, or scale settings while watching a YouTube video.

The extension did this

Collects the current video ID, page URL or referrer, transform settings, and tab context, then prepares a usage event for the analytics endpoint.

Captured request
POSThttps://analytics.wrongorbit.com/api/send
Fields in the request
  • Your YouTube page URL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ (illustrative)

    Shows which YouTube watch, Shorts, or embedded page was active when the effect event was recorded.

  • Referring page
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/abc123XYZ09 (illustrative)

    Carries the page address used as the event referrer, which can identify the video page tied to the effect use.

  • Tab context
    screen=1920x1080, language=en-US (illustrative)

    Adds browser context such as screen and language values to the analytics event.

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Flip YouTube and turn youtube video sideways 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.

  • analytics.wrongorbit.com

    Flip YouTube and turn youtube video sideways sends data to analytics.wrongorbit.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026paecgabecbloobijijfnlmeciggjkegm