Is SimilarWeb Website Traffic Rank,CSV Download safe?
SimilarWeb Website Traffic Rank,CSV Download sends the active site's domain to www.similarweb.com when opened.
When you open the popup, it reads the active tab, reduces the hostname to the registered domain, and requests the matching SimilarWeb website page. The recorded claim shows that only the active site's domain is sent in the URL path so the extension can parse traffic-rank data.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed SimilarWeb Website Traffic Rank,CSV Download 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.similarweb.com
SimilarWeb Website Traffic Rank,CSV Download sends data to www.similarweb.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.