Is Instagram Downloader — FastDL safe?
Instagram Downloader - FastDL sends selected Instagram URLs to fastdl.app when you use its download controls.
When you click the extension's injected Instagram download control, it stores the selected Instagram URL or the current page URL and opens FastDL. On the FastDL page, it fills that saved URL into the search form and clicks the submit button, sending the Instagram URL to FastDL.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.0. 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>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Instagram Downloader — FastDL 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.
- fastdl.app
Instagram Downloader — FastDL sends data to fastdl.app. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.