Is Smokeball safe?
Smokeball sends saved page URLs or captured page files to its local native messaging host when the user chooses Save.
When the user clicks Save URL, Smokeball reads the active tab URL and sends it to the Smokeball native host on the device. When the user clicks Save Page, it saves PDFs, local files, or captured MHTML page content and forwards the downloaded file path to the same native host.
Who publishes itSmokeball - no other listings under this identity
Smokeball - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 3.0.0, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
*://*/*
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Save the full contents of any page you visit
pageCapture
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 Smokeball 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.
- com.google.chrome.smokeball
Smokeball sends data to com.google.chrome.smokeball. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.