Is Gmail Notifications safe?

Clean risk

Gmail Notifications sends usage events and Gmail account counts to Amplitude under stable local identifiers.

When the popup opens or actions such as opening email, replying, marking messages read, hiding email, refreshing, or clicking the floating Gmail button occur, it records event names with locally stored Amplitude user and device IDs. The popup-open event includes the number of Gmail accounts returned to the extension, and the events are sent to api2.amplitude.com.

gazinnv1.0.4Chrome Web Store
2Risk
Who publishes it

gazinn - 1 other listing 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
gazinn

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 2k+ 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 1.0.4. 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 every site you visit

    <all_urls>

  • Schedule its own background tasks

    alarms

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

    tabs

  • Show you desktop notifications

    notifications

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Run hidden pages in the background

    offscreen

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension

    activeTab

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Gmail Notifications 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.

  • api2.amplitude.comwidely used

    Gmail Notifications sends data to api2.amplitude.com. A widely used service: 41 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026ffndpemihokcdebccgcfdnaaglgpbbhe