Is Gmail Sender Icons safe?
Gmail Sender Icons sends sender email domains to Google's favicon service when showing icons in Gmail inbox rows.
When the icon feature is enabled, Gmail Sender Icons reads contacts from Gmail thread rows and derives each sender's email domain. It uses that domain in a Google favicon URL so Gmail can display the sender's site icon next to the message.
Who publishes itDigital Inspiration - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Digital Inspiration - 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.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 6k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.0. 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/
Store data in your browser
storage
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed GmailSenderIcons 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.google.com/s2/faviconswidely used
GmailSenderIcons sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.