Is TTV LOL PRO safe?

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TTV LOL PRO is rated clean, though our review noted the following. TTV LOL PRO removes Twitch ads by intercepting the playback requests Twitch's player normally makes, and re-routing a subset of them through a third-party relay it calls "PerfProd" rather than sending them to Twitch directly. On a default install, watching any live channel triggers this: the extension's own background service worker installs a browser-wide proxy (PAC script) pointed at chromium.api.cdn-perfprod.com, and flags the live-video-manifest (Usher/Video Weaver) requests for that stream so they go through it. Dynamic analysis confirmed this in practice — watching a live Twitch channel caused the extension's own stored state to record that channel's playback requests as routed through the PerfProd proxy, with the proxy host resolved and reachable. The proxy operator can see the channel-specific manifest URLs and request headers passing through it, and the connection itself exposes the viewer's IP address to that third party. The extension's default "anonymous mode" keeps the Twitch auth token out of these specific requests, but the routing itself is not disclosed in the Chrome Web Store listing, which describes the extension only as an ad remover.

Is TTV LOL PRO safe?

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