Is Netflix, Prime, JioCinema, Hotstar - Auto intro skipper safe?
Netflix, Prime, JioCinema, Hotstar - Auto intro skipper sends skip actions and location details to Mixpanel.
When it clicks a skip button on Netflix, Prime Video/Amazon, Hotstar, or JioCinema, the content script looks up the user's IP-derived city and country through ipapi.co. It then sends a Mixpanel event containing the extension ID, skip type, button text, locale, version, and that location data.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Netflix, Prime, JioCinema, Hotstar - Auto intro skipper 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.mixpanel.comwidely used
Netflix, Prime, JioCinema, Hotstar - Auto intro skipper sends data to api.mixpanel.com. A widely used service: 35 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- ipapi.co
Netflix, Prime, JioCinema, Hotstar - Auto intro skipper sends data to ipapi.co. 16 other extensions we have analysed send data here.