Is TheChannel Viewer for Gmail safe?
TheChannel Viewer for Gmail posts embedded-page URLs, titles, and engagement activity to parent frames.
After site permissions are granted, the extension injects an iframe tracker that sends the embedded page URL, title, and activity heartbeat to the parent frame every few seconds. It also rewrites cookies for approved domains to SameSite=None; Secure, which changes how those site cookies can be sent in cross-site contexts.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on mail.google.com
https://mail.google.com/
Store data in your browser
storage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms