Is Product Hunt safe?
Product Hunt lets its web page read your Chrome top-sites list from Product Hunt origin localStorage.
When a Product Hunt extension page sends a message, the extension asks Chrome for your top sites and writes the URL and title list into localStorage on the Product Hunt page origin. The code path described in the claim does not show a direct network upload, but the Product Hunt page can read localStorage.topSites after requesting it.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Product Hunt 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.
- extension.producthunt.com
Product Hunt sends data to extension.producthunt.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.