Is iCloud Hide My Email safe?
iCloud Hide My Email lets any webpage trigger alias generation and reservation through its injected email-field bridge.
The extension injects a content script into all HTTP and HTTPS pages and watches email fields. Page scripts can focus those fields to request a new Hide My Email alias, read the alias from the page, and trigger reservation with the current site hostname sent as the label.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.7. 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 icloud.com
https://*.icloud.com/*
Read and change your data on icloud.com.cn
https://*.icloud.com.cn/*
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed iCloud Hide My Email 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.
- setup.icloud.com
iCloud Hide My Email sends data to setup.icloud.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.