Is Hotukdeals | Shopping with Savings safe?
Hotukdeals runs on every website visited and reports the domain to a Browsy lookup service.
A content script injected into every http/https page (host permission <all_urls>) sends the current page's domain to a background script that queries browsy.pepper.com for deal and price-comparison data on that site. When the remote config enables price comparison for a site, the extension also extracts product details (name, GTIN, price) from the page and sends them to browsy.pepper.com and ocular-xtn.pepper.com to power price-comparison and analytics features.
Who publishes ithotukdeals - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
hotukdeals - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 2 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 12.7.0. 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 data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Hotukdeals | Shopping with Savings 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.
- browsy.pepper.com
Hotukdeals | Shopping with Savings sends data to browsy.pepper.com. 5 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- ocular-xtn.pepper.com
Hotukdeals | Shopping with Savings sends data to ocular-xtn.pepper.com. 2 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.