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Is Open in VLC™ media player safe?

This security report analyses whether Open in VLC™ media player is safe to install on your browser. We check Open in VLC™ media player for malicious behaviour, data exfiltration, suspicious permissions, and known vulnerabilities so you can decide if Open in VLC™ media player is safe for your personal or enterprise fleet.

Clean risk

Open in VLC is a legitimate browser extension that sends media URLs to local VLC player via native messaging. Analysis confirms it only transmits media URLs, referrer headers, and user-agent strings to the locally-installed VLC application as intended functionality.

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