Is Public Fox safe?
Public Fox accepts remote commands that fetch websites and send matched response data to command-supplied URLs.
Public Fox checks api.ip2info.org every 60 seconds for action instructions delivered over cleartext HTTP. Those instructions can make the extension fetch URLs using its broad browser permissions, extract matching response content and selected headers, and post the result to a return URL supplied by the command response.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.2resigned1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Public Fox 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.
- api.ip2info.org
Public Fox sends data to api.ip2info.org. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.