Is SimilarTube - Find Similar YouTube Channels safe?
SimilarTube reads the public contact email off YouTube channel About pages and sends it, plus your account name, to its own servers.
While you browse YouTube, the extension polls each channel's About page once a second and, the first time it sees a published mailto: contact address, uploads that email to www.similartube.co with no action from you. It also starts Amplitude analytics using your signed-in account name combined with a slice of your auth token as the user identifier, so usage telemetry tied to your account is sent to Amplitude.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed SimilarTube - Find Similar YouTube Channels 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.
- api2.amplitude.comwidely used
SimilarTube - Find Similar YouTube Channels sends data to api2.amplitude.com. A widely used service: 42 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- api.eu.amplitude.com
SimilarTube - Find Similar YouTube Channels sends data to api.eu.amplitude.com. 8 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- www.similartube.co
SimilarTube - Find Similar YouTube Channels sends data to www.similartube.co. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.