Is Holmes safe?
Holmes sends unmatched bookmark-search text to Google Search over cleartext HTTP.
Holmes searches your bookmarks from the omnibox or popup. When no matching bookmark is selected, it opens a Google Search URL using HTTP and includes the text you typed in the query string.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.4.0. 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 bookmarks
bookmarks
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Holmes 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.google.comwidely used
Holmes sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.