Is vCaptions – Video Caption List safe?
vCaptions transmits the logged-in user's email address to PostHog on startup and login events.
When the extension starts, it initialises PostHog analytics and immediately sends the stored user's numeric ID and email address to app.posthog.com if a session exists; the same data is sent on each login. Analytics run by default unless the user has explicitly opted out via a sync-storage flag. The extension also intercepts YouTube API responses on youtube.com to extract video IDs, titles, and subtitle text for its caption and translation features.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed vcaptions-%E2%80%93-video-caption 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.
- app.posthog.com
vcaptions-%E2%80%93-video-caption sends data to app.posthog.com. 6 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- api.vcaptions.com
vcaptions-%E2%80%93-video-caption sends data to api.vcaptions.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.