Is Google Analytics Debugger safe?

Clean risk

Loads the Google Analytics debug script and shows tracking diagnostics in the Chrome JavaScript console.

This extension can be turned on from its toolbar icon to load the debug version of Google Analytics JavaScript on sites you browse. After you refresh a page, it prints console messages such as errors, warnings, and a breakdown of tracking beacons sent to Google Analytics.

Google Analyticsv3.0Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

Google Ireland, Ltd. - 97 other listings 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
Google Analytics
Declared legal entity
Google Ireland, Ltd.
Registered address
Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4 D04 E5W5, IE
Registered contact
Google Ireland, Ltd.

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 3.0. 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 every site you visit

    <all_urls>

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

    tabs

  • Block and redirect the requests your browser makes

    declarativeNetRequest

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Google Analytics Debugger 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.

  • Google Analytics

    Google Analytics Debugger sends data to Google Analytics. Named as a recipient by 11 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 30 September 2026jnkmfdileelhofjcijamephohjechhna