Is Sender Icons for Gmail™ safe?
Sender Icons for Gmail sends visible Gmail sender domains to Google's favicon service.
Sender Icons for Gmail runs on Gmail pages and reads the domain portion of visible sender email addresses. It loads a favicon URL from Google for each domain, which sends those visible sender domains to Google's favicon service while Gmail is rendered.
Who publishes itLynn - 6 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Lynn - 6 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.
Same store account
6 other listings published from this account, 118k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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 0.1.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Sender Icons for Gmail™ 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
Sender Icons for Gmail™ sends data to www.google.com/s2/favicons. A widely used service: 132 other extensions we have analysed send data here.