Is Визуальные закладки safe?
Визуальные закладки sends the user's most-visited URLs to Mail.ru's tile-metadata backend on every new-tab open.
Each time a new tab is opened, the extension calls chrome.topSites.get() and forwards each of the user's top-visited URLs to data-ntp.browser.mail.ru to fetch tile thumbnails, without requiring authentication. Alongside this, a telemetry beacon is sent to stat.browser.mail.ru on every new-tab open, carrying a browser GUID, extension ID, Chrome version, and UI interaction events. An ad-targeting pixel is also fetched daily to ad.mail.ru and pulse-ad.mail.ru with browser cookies included.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 7.2.6. 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 covid.atom.qsoa.cloud
https://covid.atom.qsoa.cloud/
Read and change your data on cdnmail.ru
*://*.cdnmail.ru/*
Read and change your data on imgsmail.ru
*://*.imgsmail.ru/*
Read and change your data on mail.ru
*://*.mail.ru/*
Read and change your data on ok.ru
*://*.ok.ru/*
Read and change your data on userapi.com
*://*.userapi.com/*
Read and change your data on vk.com
*://*.vk.com/*
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Визуальные закладки 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.
- ad.mail.ru
Визуальные закладки sends data to ad.mail.ru. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- data-ntp.browser.mail.ru
Визуальные закладки sends data to data-ntp.browser.mail.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- pulse-ad.mail.ru
Визуальные закладки sends data to pulse-ad.mail.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- stat.browser.mail.ru
Визуальные закладки sends data to stat.browser.mail.ru. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.