Is GrowBot Automator for Instagram safe?
GrowBot Automator logs every Instagram account it scrapes for follow/like/comment automation to its own server.
As GrowBot builds its automation queue, it fetches profile data for each Instagram account it is targeting (for example, accounts scraped from a competitor's followers or likers) and sends that account's username and numeric ID, along with the user's own Instagram handle, to growbotforfollowers.com. This happens on every profile lookup regardless of the extension's own data-collection toggle, so the vendor's backend accumulates a record of every third-party Instagram account each user's bot has profiled.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itGrowbot - no other listings under this identity, 3 shared hostnames
Growbot - no other listings under this identity, 3 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 3 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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.8.9. 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 instagram.com
https://*.instagram.com/*
Read and change your data on growbotforfollowers.com
https://*.growbotforfollowers.com/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed GrowBot Automator for Instagram 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.growbotforfollowers.com
GrowBot Automator for Instagram sends data to www.growbotforfollowers.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.