Is GenTech - Browser Tools safe?
GenTech - Browser Tools retrieves the filtering username from filterstatus.com over cleartext HTTP.
GenTech - Browser Tools contacts filterstatus.com over HTTP during startup or login to retrieve the user's GenTech filtering username. The extension stores that value locally and later includes it as a device_id in authenticated filtering-actions requests.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itGenTech - no other listings under this identity
GenTech - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 7.2. 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
*://*/*
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed GenTech - Browser Tools 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.
- filterstatus.com
GenTech - Browser Tools sends data to filterstatus.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.