Is New Tab Studio: Countdown & widgets safe?
New Tab Studio fetches favicons for your saved shortcuts over plain HTTP, sending each shortcut's hostname in the clear.
When you add a quick-link tile to your new tab page, the extension normally uses Chrome's internal favicon API to show its icon. On larger icon sizes or in its Firefox build, it instead requests the icon from the vendor's own server at mavo-dash.com over unencrypted HTTP, passing the hostname of the shortcut you saved in the request URL. Because the connection is plaintext, that hostname is visible to anyone able to observe the network traffic.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itmavo-dash - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
mavo-dash - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.6.0. 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 new-tab.studio
*://new-tab.studio/*
Read and change your data on api.openweathermap.org
*://api.openweathermap.org/*
Read and change your data on google-analytics.com
*://*.google-analytics.com/*
Read and change your data on unsplash.com
*://*.unsplash.com/*
Read and change your data on giphy.com
*://*.giphy.com/*
Read and change your data on mavo-dash.com:8080
http://mavo-dash.com:8080/*
Read and change your data on mavo-dash.com:2052
http://mavo-dash.com:2052/*
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed New Tab Studio 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.
- mavo-dash.com
New Tab Studio sends data to mavo-dash.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.