Is Free Residential VPN | Tuxler safe?
Free Residential VPN | Tuxler falls back to HTTP for Tuxler API calls that include account credentials after HTTPS errors.
The extension sends username and password parameters to Tuxler's API for login, startup, keep-alive, and server selection requests. If one of these HTTPS API requests fails, the background script retries the same request over plain HTTP to api.tuxler.com.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itTuxler Privacy Technologies, Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
Tuxler Privacy Technologies, Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 6 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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.25. 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>
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Change your browser's privacy and security settings
privacy
Store data in your browser
storage
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Free Residential VPN | Tuxler 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.tuxler.com
Free Residential VPN | Tuxler sends data to api.tuxler.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.