Is Ground News - Bias Checker safe?
Shows how other news outlets cover the article you are reading.
This extension displays related coverage from news outlets worldwide so you can compare reporting on the same story. It also shows bias and factuality ratings for sources, works with listed social media sites, and can save articles for later with in-text citations.
Who publishes itGround News - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
Ground News - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 4 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
Findings
Navigation URLs are sent to Ground News search
Opening or updating a page sends the tab URL to `extension.ground.news/search` as a query parameter.
Captured GET requests covered example.com, Google, Amazon, and Reddit; the code also appends page title when available.
You open or update a web page in a tab.
The behavior is tied to normal browsing, not to pressing the extension button.
The extension sends that page URL to the Ground News search endpoint.
When the helper receives a title, it appends the title to the same request.
| Field | Value | Why it matters | |
|---|---|---|---|
Visited page URL | https://www.example.com/ | Shows the exact page you opened, which can reveal browsing history and reading interests. | |
Page title | Example Domain (illustrative) | Adds readable page context when the request helper is called with a title. |
The helper builds the request and the tab-update listener calls it for tab URLs
const t = async (e, r) => {
try {
let s = `https://extension.ground.news/search?url=${encodeURIComponent(e)}`;
r && (s = `${s}&title=${encodeURIComponent(r)}`);
const t = await fetch(s);
return await (null == t ? void 0 : t.json())
} catch (e) {}
}r.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((async (s, t, i) => {
try {
if (!i.url) return;
let t = a.get(i.url);
if (!t) {
if (!(!!(o = i.url) && !o.includes("http://") && !o.includes("newtab"))) return t = {
status: "invalid",
timestamp: Date.now()
}, void a.set(i.url, t);
t = await n(i.url)
}
if ("processing" === t.status) return;
if (Date.now() - t.timestamp > 3e5 && (t = await n(i.url)), "invalid" === t.status) return;
const g = t.payload;
if (!(null == g ? void 0 : g.event)) return;
const m = await (async e => await r.tabs.sendMessage(e, {
action: "CHECK_IF_FRAME_EXISTS"
}))(s);
if (m) return;
await (async (s, t) => {
await r.tabs.sendMessage(s, {
action: e.OpenPopup,
event: t.event,
source: t.source
})
})(s, {
event: g.event,
source: g.source
});
const {
sessionID: l
} = await r.storage.local.get("sessionID");
l && g.refId && await (async (e, r) => {
try {
await fetch(`https://production.checkitt.news/api/v04/article/trackOpen/${e}`, {
headers: {
Authorization: r
}
})
} catch (e) {}
})(g.refId, l), g.event.sourceCount && await r.action.setBadgeText({
text: g.event.sourceCount.toString(),
tabId: s
})
} catch (e) {}
var o
}))- extension.ground.news
Receives the URL-encoded page URL through the `/search` endpoint and can receive the page title when the helper is called with one.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.2.1. 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 extension.ground.news
https://extension.ground.news/*
Read and change your data on production.checkitt.news
https://production.checkitt.news/api/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ground News 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.
- Ground News
Ground News sends data to Ground News. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.