Is GrabzIt Web Scraping Assistant safe?
GrabzIt Assistant strips security headers and reroutes scripts on grabz.it scrape tabs, and the rules persist after navigation.
The extension supports the grabz.it web scraping service. For tabs opened on grabz.it scrape pages, it removes Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options and CORS headers from subframes, removes Referer and Origin headers, and redirects subframe script requests through grabz.it's proxy. These listeners are not removed when the tab navigates to another site, so they stay active on whatever site that tab loads next.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.8. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change your data on grabz.it
*://grabz.it/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed GrabzIt Web Scraping Assistant 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.
- grabz.it
GrabzIt Web Scraping Assistant sends data to grabz.it. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.