Is TabX - Minimalist New Tab safe?
TabX sends location data to weather services when its new-tab weather widget is enabled.
The weather widget asks for browser geolocation and uses latitude and longitude for current weather and forecast requests. If geolocation is denied, it calls ipapi.co to derive a city, country, latitude, and longitude from the user's IP address, then queries OpenWeatherMap for weather data.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.15.5. 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
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Read your physical location
geolocation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed TabX - Minimalist New Tab 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.
- api.openweathermap.orgwidely used
TabX - Minimalist New Tab sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 32 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- ipapi.co
TabX - Minimalist New Tab sends data to ipapi.co. 16 other extensions we have analysed send data here.