Is Strava Heatmap safe?

Low risk

Strava Heatmap attaches your Strava cookies to global heatmap tile requests and makes the responses readable by other sites.

When the extension has Strava credentials, it reads selected Strava cookies and installs a browser network rule for global heatmap tile requests. That rule adds the cookies to matching Strava tile requests from non-Strava pages and sets the response so the requesting site can read it.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

julcnxv0.13.8Chrome Web Store
17Risk
Who publishes it

julcnx - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Shared hosts - 1 hostname

Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.

gpx.studio
Also called by 4 other listings

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.13.6. 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 0.13.8, which we have not unpacked yet.

  • Read and change your data on www.strava.com

    *://www.strava.com/*

  • Read and change your data on content-a.strava.com

    *://content-a.strava.com/*

  • Read and change your data on www.openstreetmap.org

    *://www.openstreetmap.org/*

  • Read and change your data on gpx.studio

    *://gpx.studio/*

  • Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in

    cookies

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Block and redirect the requests your browser makes

    declarativeNetRequest

  • Show you desktop notifications

    notifications

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Strava Heatmap 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.

  • content-a.strava.com

    Strava Heatmap sends data to content-a.strava.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026eglbcifjafncknmpmnelckombmgddlco