Is Open in VLC™ media player safe?

Clean risk

This extension sends selected online video and audio links to VLC media player.

It adds a context menu option for media elements and can use the toolbar button when a supported page is detected. If one media link is found, it opens it in VLC; if multiple links are found, it prompts you to choose which links to send. It also includes a tool to join media files into a single WAV file.

yokris.devv0.4.3Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

yokris.dev - 7 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

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 0.4.3. 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>

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox

    nativeMessaging

  • Watch every request your browser makes

    webRequest

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Open in VLC™ media player 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.

  • native-client application

    Open in VLC™ media player sends data to native-client application. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

  • VLC media player

    Open in VLC™ media player sends data to VLC media player. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 30 September 2026ihpiinojhnfhpdmmacgmpoonphhimkaj