Is LinkedIn Auto-Connect safe?
LinkedIn Auto-Connect sends connection search details and profile names to analytics and nationality lookup services.
When you start adding LinkedIn connections, the extension sends your search keywords, invitation message, selected locations, and nationality blacklist to Google Analytics. It also extracts names from LinkedIn search results and sends first and last names to api.nationalize.io to estimate nationalities for filtering.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.3.2. 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 linkedin.com
*://*.linkedin.com/
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed LinkedIn Auto-Connect 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.
- www.google-analytics.comwidely used
LinkedIn Auto-Connect sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api.nationalize.io
LinkedIn Auto-Connect sends data to api.nationalize.io. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.