Is Reading List safe?
Reading List fetches a favicon from DuckDuckGo for each saved page, disclosing the hostnames of your reading list to a third party.
When you open the popup, Reading List renders each saved item with a favicon image loaded from icons.duckduckgo.com/ip2/{hostname}.ico, built from the hostname of every page you saved. The browser issues a request to DuckDuckGo's icon CDN for each item every time the popup opens, sending those hostnames (and revealing the extension via the referer). The reading list is stored locally in chrome.storage.sync; there is no first-party favicon fallback or opt-out.
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 3.0.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Reading List 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.
- icons.duckduckgo.com
Reading List sends data to icons.duckduckgo.com. 10 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.