Is IP address lookup safe?
IP address lookup polls ifconfig.co every minute to display your public IP and location in the toolbar.
The background service worker requests https://ifconfig.co/json when the extension starts and then once per minute using a Chrome alarm. It reads the returned IP address, city, country, and country code to update the toolbar badge, title, and icon; no content scripts or other host permissions are declared.
Who publishes itExtpose - 11 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
Extpose - 11 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
11 other listings published from this account, 2.0M+ users between them. 2 of them carry a finding.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
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 ifconfig.co
https://ifconfig.co/*
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed IP address lookup 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.
- ifconfig.co
IP address lookup sends data to ifconfig.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.