Is Tenere safe?

Medium risk

Automatically applies coupon codes at checkout for participating online stores.

This extension helps users shop through Tenere’s supported merchants and applies available discount codes during checkout. Tenere says it uses part of its commission from completed orders to plant trees, and it provides financial reports and tree-planting receipts for transparency. The description states that Google Analytics collects extension usage statistics to help improve the user experience.

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Findings

SeverityMEDIUM
ClassMALICIOUS
TypeUnexpected
CWECWE-359
SourceAI SANDBOX

Browsing History Transmitted to couponego.com on Every Tab Switch

DA captured 14 requests from Tenere to couponego.com during one visit to ebay.com.

Each tab switch sends the hostname to couponego.com.

Only 18 domains (Google, Facebook, Amazon) are excluded; every other site is reported.

01EvidenceCAUSE EFFECT
What actually happens
You did this

You switch to any browser tab, any website, not just a shopping site.

The extension did this

Tenere sends the site's hostname to couponego.com before checking whether the site sells anything.

Only 18 domains (Google, Facebook, and Amazon variants) are excluded. All other HTTP and HTTPS sites trigger the lookup.

02EvidenceNETWORK CAPTURE
Captured request
GEThttps://couponego.com/api/ext/coupons/ebay.com
JSON response containing available coupons, store metadata, and user_info fields for the visited domain.
Headers
Cacheno-cache
User-AgentMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
03EvidenceFIELD TABLE
What Tenere transmits to couponego.com on each tab switch:
FieldValueWhy it matters
Visited hostname
ebay.comThe domain of every site you switch to, stripped of the 'www.' prefix. Builds a record of all sites you browse.
Domain in URL path
https://couponego.com/api/ext/coupons/ebay.comThe hostname appears directly in the request URL path, making it visible in server logs and any network intermediary.
04EvidenceCODE COMPARE
The code that does this

Navigation listener and domain lookup from the background service worker.

What it actually does
Tab activation handler (readable form)background/background.js
const onTabActivated = async ({ tabId }) => {
  resetState();
  try {
    const tab = await chrome.tabs.get(tabId);
    if (!tab || !tab.url) return;
    const domain = new URL(tab.url).hostname.replace(/^www\./, '');
    if (EXCLUDED_DOMAINS.some(exc => domain.includes(exc))) return;
    const result = await fetchCouponsForDomain(tabId, domain);
    if (result?.coupons?.length > 0) {
      // inject coupon UI into the active tab
      chrome.scripting.executeScript({ target: { tabId }, files: ['contentScript/couponScript.js'] });
    }
  } catch {}
};
chrome.tabs.onActivated.addListener(onTabActivated);
Server fetch (readable form)background/background.js
async function fetchCouponsFromServer(domain) {
  const url = CONFIG.api_path + 'ext/coupons/' + domain;
  // → 'https://couponego.com/api/ext/coupons/' + domain
  const response = await fetch(url, { mode: 'cors', method: 'GET', credentials: 'same-origin', headers: { ... } });
  return response.json();
}
05EvidenceTHIRD PARTY LIST
Hosts that receive the visited domain on every tab switch:
  • couponego.com

    Primary coupon lookup backend. Receives visited hostname via GET /api/ext/coupons/{domain} and POST /api/extension/domain-config. Operated by the Tenere team.

Data recipients

Google Analytics
Updated 10 September 2026kdffomfplcfeemdjjnifjeenlpbcgfcj