Is Pomodoro Timer for Google Calendar safe?
Pomodoro Timer for Google Calendar sends Google Calendar event titles to Google Analytics when a user starts a timer.
When a user starts a Pomodoro timer from Google Calendar, the extension reads the visible calendar event title from the page. It sends that title as an analytics event label to Google Analytics along with the extension's client ID.
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Findings
Calendar event titles are sent to Google Analytics when timers start.
When you start a Pomodoro timer from Google Calendar, the extension reads the visible calendar event title and sends it to Google Analytics, along with a stored client ID that ties the analytics event to that browser-side identifier.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
The user starts a Pomodoro timer from Google Calendar.
The extension reads the visible calendar event title and sends it to Google Analytics as the analytics event label.
- Calendar event titleTeam planning meeting (illustrative)
The title can reveal the subject of the meeting or task connected to the timer.
- Stored client ID1234567890.987654321 (illustrative)
This browser-side identifier lets analytics associate timer events from the same extension installation.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.9. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Pomodoro Timer for Google Calendar 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-analytics.comwidely used
Pomodoro Timer for Google Calendar sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.