Is Netflix SubStyler: Customize subtitles safe?

Clean risk

Netflix SubStyler automatically loads Google Fonts stylesheets into Netflix pages.

Netflix SubStyler injects Google Fonts stylesheet links when Netflix pages load. This causes the browser to request font CSS from fonts.googleapis.com, which can include the Netflix page URL and referrer in the request.

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Who publishes it

HideApp - 67 other listings from the same operator, 16 of them carrying a finding

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.9. 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 netflix.com

    *://*.netflix.com/*

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Netflix SubStyler: Customize subtitles 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.

  • fonts.googleapis.comwidely used

    Netflix SubStyler: Customize subtitles sends data to fonts.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 123 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

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