Is Owl devtools safe?
Owl devtools lets any webpage ask the extension to open its Owl documentation tab.
Its content script runs on all pages and forwards page messages marked as owl-devtools to the background script without checking the page origin. A webpage can use that bridge to trigger the openDoc action, which opens a fixed Owl devtools guide on GitHub; the code does not show arbitrary URL opening or browsing-data collection through this path.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Owl devtools 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.
- github.com
Owl devtools sends data to github.com. 10 other extensions we have analysed send data here.