Is Postlight Reader safe?
Postlight Reader sends the current article's domain to Google's favicon service when Reader view opens.
When you open Postlight Reader from its toolbar or context-menu action, its reader UI builds a favicon image URL using the parsed article domain. That image is loaded from Google's www.google.com/s2/favicons service, which tells Google the domain of the article being viewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 9. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Postlight Reader 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.comwidely used
Postlight Reader sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.