Is Internet Security by MetaCert safe?
Internet Security by MetaCert sends visited URLs and Gmail links to MetaCert and puts blocked URLs in a redirect.
The extension checks pages you visit by posting URLs with a node ID and timestamp to MetaCert's URL reputation API, and it also forwards links it finds on Gmail pages for the same check. When it blocks a page marked red or crypto-miner, it redirects the tab to a MetaCert block page over HTTP with the blocked URL and previous URL in query parameters.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itMetaCert - no other listings under this identity
MetaCert - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.0.2. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Internet Security by MetaCert 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.
- block.metacert.com
Internet Security by MetaCert sends data to block.metacert.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- hyperchain.metacertprotocol.io
Internet Security by MetaCert sends data to hyperchain.metacertprotocol.io. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.