Is PDF2DOCS safe?

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Is PDF2DOCS safe?

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PDF2DOCS is medium risk. The extension's service worker collects a device fingerprint—including OS version, browser version, a randomly generated install-specific UUID, and advertising attribution tags from the installer's thank-you page—and transmits this bundle to webinline-usage.streamesh.net on installation and on every new-tab open. The streamesh.net domain belongs to a third-party distribution and monetization network not mentioned in the extension name or store description. Code analysis shows the extension reads partner attribution identifiers stored at install time (GID, ISID, and campaign tags N, M, L) and appends them as off-screen HTML form inputs to every search form on the extension's new-tab page and on pdf2docs.com pages before the form is submitted. The result is that every search query the user submits from these surfaces carries partner-attribution identifiers that are not visible in the browser address bar or the search results page, and that tie the query to the specific installer channel.

Is PDF2DOCS safe?

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