Is HedNet Protocol Extension: Enabling Decentralized Bandwidth Sharing safe?
HedNet Protocol Extension fetches your public IP address from api.ipify.org while its popup is open.
When you open the extension popup, it calls api.ipify.org every 60 seconds to get the browser's current public IP address and displays it in the popup. The reviewed claim describes no content scripts or page scraping, so this behavior is limited to the popup rather than websites you visit.
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 2.1.8. 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 hednetio.ovh
https://*.hednetio.ovh/*
Read and change your data on hednet.io
https://*.hednet.io/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed HedNet Protocol Extension: Enabling Decentralized Bandwidth Sharing 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.
- api.ipify.orgwidely used
HedNet Protocol Extension: Enabling Decentralized Bandwidth Sharing sends data to api.ipify.org. A widely used service: 41 other extensions we have analysed send data here.