Is Popup Blocker Pro safe?

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Popup Blocker Pro is critical risk. Every time you navigate to a new page in your browser, Popup Blocker Pro sends the full URL you visited, the URL you came from (referrer), and a persistent identifier tied to your install to data.popup-blocker.org. Our dynamic analysis captured 3 POST requests to data.popup-blocker.org/process during a single test session, each containing the visited URL, referrer, user ID, and timestamps. This occurs on every main-frame navigation — every tab load, every site — without a consent prompt. When you visit Amazon, Walmart, Target, Costco, or any of 16 other retail and grocery sites, Popup Blocker Pro monitors your activity. After you click on any element on one of these sites, the extension opens a 2-second window during which it records every web request your browser makes — capturing the URL, IP address, HTTP method, status code, and the page URL — and then bulk-transmits these records to data.popup-blocker.org/ajax along with your persistent user ID. Our dynamic analysis captured a POST to this endpoint after clicking on an Amazon page, with the request body containing 19 or more request objects from that browsing session.

Is Popup Blocker Pro safe?

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