Is Stanford GSB Library Chrome Extension safe?
Stanford GSB Library Chrome Extension sends a persistent extension user ID and popup activity to Google Analytics.
The extension creates and stores a persistent user ID, then includes it in Google Analytics Measurement Protocol events. It sends install, update, daily access, popup click, and generic search-action events, including event categories and labels but not the typed search query.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 6.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Stanford GSB Library Chrome Extension 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.google-analytics.comwidely used
Stanford GSB Library Chrome Extension sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.