Is Rate My Professor Extension safe?
Rate My Professor Extension sends instructor link clicks with persistent IDs to Google Analytics.
When you click a Rate My Professors link added on Oregon State class pages, the extension sends the instructor name and school to Google Analytics. The event also includes persistent client and session identifiers stored by the extension.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.4. 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 www.ratemyprofessors.com
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Rate My Professor Extension 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-analytics.comwidely used
Rate My Professor Extension sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.