Is Unlock (Paywalls) safe?
Unlock redirects supported news-site articles to archive.today with the original article URL in the request.
When you open supported news sites, Unlock intercepts page and frame requests and redirects matching article URLs through archive.today. The archive.today request includes the original news-site URL as a query parameter so the archive service can load that page.
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 4.0. 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 nytimes.com
*://*.nytimes.com/*
Read and change your data on wsj.com
*://*.wsj.com/*
Read and change your data on washingtonpost.com
*://*.washingtonpost.com/*
Read and change your data on miamiherald.com
*://*.miamiherald.com/*
Read and change your data on reuters.com
*://*.reuters.com/*
Read and change your data on latimes.com
*://*.latimes.com/*
Read and change your data on theintercept.com
*://*.theintercept.com/*
Read and change your data on ft.com
*://*.ft.com/*
Read and change your data on theatlantic.com
*://*.theatlantic.com/*
Read and change your data on bloomberg.com
*://*.bloomberg.com/*
Read and change your data on https:
*://*.https://thedailybeast.com/*
Read and change your data on theathletic.com
*://*.theathletic.com/*
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Unlock (Paywalls) 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.
- archive.today
Unlock (Paywalls) sends data to archive.today. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.