Is URL Link Previews for Gmail™ by cloudHQ safe?
URL Link Previews for Gmail by cloudHQ sends compose links and clipped page metadata to cloudHQ services.
When you use the Gmail link-preview feature, the content script detects URLs in Gmail compose content and asks the background script to fetch preview data. The background script posts the composed URL to www.cloudhq.net and can open the target page, collect title/content/image metadata, and send the clipping results to cloudHQ endpoints; a Cloudflare Workers scraper is used as a fallback for page text extraction.
Who publishes itcloudHQ LLC - 9 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
cloudHQ LLC - 9 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
9 other listings published from this account, 159k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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 1.0.2.9. 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>
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Keep running in the background while your browser is open
background
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard
clipboardRead
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed URL Link Previews for Gmail™ by cloudHQ 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.
- www.cloudhq.netwidely used
URL Link Previews for Gmail™ by cloudHQ sends data to www.cloudhq.net. A widely used service: 38 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- websitescraper.cloudhq.workers.dev
URL Link Previews for Gmail™ by cloudHQ sends data to websitescraper.cloudhq.workers.dev. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.