Is Silk - Privacy Pass Client safe?
Provides Privacy Pass tokens for websites that support the Privacy Pass protocol.
This extension gets cryptographic Privacy Pass tokens for supported websites, such as Cloudflare-protected sites, to improve your human signal. When a site requests a token, it opens a challenge page for you to solve and then obtains one token after successful completion.
Who publishes itCloudflare Research - no other listings under this identity
Cloudflare Research - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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 4.0.2. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Silk 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.
- Cloudflare Research
Silk sends data to Cloudflare Research. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.