Is Smart Video Downloader safe?
Smart Video Downloader fetches remote network rules that can modify browsing requests across all sites.
When installed and when tabs update, the extension contacts api.videodownloadings.com/sm with its version and extension ID, stores the returned rules, and applies them as Chrome declarative network rules. Because its permissions cover all sites, those backend-provided rules can block, redirect, or change request headers for browsing traffic.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.0. 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>
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
See which of your requests its blocking rules matched
declarativeNetRequestFeedback
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Smart Video Downloader 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.
- api.videodownloadings.com
Smart Video Downloader sends data to api.videodownloadings.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.