Is Highlight IP Lookup safe?
Highlight IP Lookup sends selected text from the active page to ip-api.com for IP location lookup.
When you open the popup, the extension reads the current text selection from the active tab and uses it as the lookup value. It sends that selected text in an HTTP request path to ip-api.com to retrieve IP or host location details.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.8. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Highlight IP Lookup 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.
- ip-api.comwidely used
Highlight IP Lookup sends data to ip-api.com. A widely used service: 62 other extensions we have analysed send data here.