Is OnHub Recovery Utility safe?

Low risk

OnHub Recovery Utility sends recovery target and USB drive details to Google Analytics when crash reporting allows it.

OnHub Recovery Utility initializes Google Analytics only when Chrome reports that crash reporting is enabled. During the recovery flow, it sends app, platform, Chrome version, selected OnHub model, selection method, and selected USB drive vendor, model, capacity, and removable status.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

google.comv0.2.1Chrome Web Store
15Risk
Who publishes it

Google Ireland, Ltd. - 70 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
google.com
Declared legal entity
Google Ireland, Ltd.
Registered address
Gordon House Barrow Street, Dublin 4 D04 E5W5, IE
Registered contact
Google Ireland, Ltd.

Same store account

2 other listings published from this account, 2.0M+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

Recovery2.0M+CleanMeet Compute System Recovery Utility9k+Low

Same operator - 68 listings

Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.

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same registered address
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same registered address
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same registered address
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same registered address
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Google Dictionary (by Google)
same registered address
4.0M+Low
Perfetto UI
same registered address
8k+Low62 more listings in the relationship graph, on paid plans →

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.2.1. 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 dl.google.com

    https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/onhub_recovery.json

  • Read and change your data on www.google-analytics.com

    https://www.google-analytics.com/

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

chromeosInfoPrivatefeedbackPrivatefileSystemimageWriterPrivatemetricsPrivate

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Recovery 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

    Recovery sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026fmgkgdalfapcmjnanilfcpkhkhedmpdm