Is Tabwave safe?
Tabwave sends Bookmark Bar URLs to Google's favicon service when showing shortcuts.
When the Shortcuts view loads, Tabwave reads bookmarks from the browser's Bookmarks Bar and uses each bookmark URL to build a Google favicon request. This causes Google to receive those bookmarked URLs as part of fetching the site icons shown in the new-tab page.
Who publishes itRutik Wankhade - no other listings under this identity
Rutik Wankhade - 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 1.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Tabwave 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.comwidely used
Tabwave sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.