Is M3U8 Downloaders - Video Downloads Simplified safe?
M3U8 Downloaders sends selected media URLs, page titles, and referring tab URLs to m3u8downloaders.com.
When you start a download, the extension opens m3u8downloaders.com with the detected stream URL, the active page title, and the referring tab URL in the request. Its content script runs on most HTTP and HTTPS pages to detect playable media, while the external download page receives the selected media details needed for the download flow.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.5. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read and change your data on chromiumapp.org
https://*.chromiumapp.org/*
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Store data in your browser
storage
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
See the email address of your Google account
identity.email
Read information about your displays
system.display
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed M3U8 Downloaders - Video Downloads Simplified 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.
- m3u8downloaders.com
M3U8 Downloaders - Video Downloads Simplified sends data to m3u8downloaders.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.