Is uGet Integration safe?
uGet Integration intercepts downloads and passes cookies and POST form data to the locally-installed uGet download manager via native messaging.
When the extension detects a download, it collects cookies and HTTP headers for the download URL and sends them to the uGet native host (com.ugetdm.chrome or com.ugetdm.firefox) to support authenticated downloads. It also captures POST form data from all page navigations and includes it in the message sent to the native host when a download is intercepted. Data is transmitted only to the uGet application installed on the user's own machine, not to any remote server.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.1.3. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Store data in your browser
storage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed uGet 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.
- com.ugetdm.chrome (local native host)
uGet sends data to com.ugetdm.chrome (local native host). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.
- com.ugetdm.firefox (local native host)
uGet sends data to com.ugetdm.firefox (local native host). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.