Is Peek-a-tab, Tabs Manager for Google Chrome™ safe?
Peek-a-tab sends fallback favicon lookups to Google with the current tab URL in the request.
When a tab does not provide its own favicon URL, Peek-a-tab builds a Google favicon lookup using that tab's URL. The request is made while the popup renders the tab list, and the URL value can include page paths and query strings after the scheme is stripped.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Peek-a-tab, Tabs Manager for Google Chrome™ 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.
- www.google.com/s2/faviconswidely used
Peek-a-tab, Tabs Manager for Google Chrome™ sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.