Is MozBar safe?
MozBar transmits visited URLs and search result links to api.moz.com when the user is signed in.
When the user is authenticated, MozBar sends the URL of each page visited (without query parameters) to api.moz.com via JSON-RPC on every tab activation and page load. On Google, Bing, and Yahoo search pages, it also collects and transmits the URLs of all organic search results to the same endpoint when the SERP overlay is active. Responses are cached locally for 24 hours.
Who publishes itMoz - no other listings under this identity
Moz - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.1.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 5.0.17, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Store data in your browser
storage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed MozBar 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.
- api.moz.com
MozBar sends data to api.moz.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.