Is Purple Wallpaper safe?
Purple Wallpaper sends top-site URLs to Google's favicon service from its new-tab page.
When the new-tab page loads, Purple Wallpaper asks Chrome for the browser's top sites and displays up to 10 of them. For each displayed site, it builds an icon URL at Google's favicon service with the top-site URL encoded in the domain query parameter.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.311.1.45. 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
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Store data in your browser
storage
Run searches with your default search engine
search
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Purple Wallpaper 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.com/s2/faviconswidely used
Purple Wallpaper sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.