Is vidIQ Vision for YouTube safe?
vidIQ Vision for YouTube captures TikTok video metadata and viewing events and transmits them to api.vidiq.com.
When experiment flags are active, the extension intercepts TikTok feed API responses and collects video titles, author details, and engagement stats, then batches and POSTs them to vidIQ's scraping endpoint. It also attaches listeners to TikTok video elements and records start, completion, and rewatch events tied to the logged-in vidIQ user ID, sending those events to a separate telemetry endpoint on api.vidiq.com.
Who publishes itvidIQ - no other listings under this identity, 12 shared hostnames
vidIQ - no other listings under this identity, 12 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 12 hostnames
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 3.227.0. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Write to your clipboard
clipboardWrite
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Keep running in the background while your browser is open
background
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed vidIQ Vision for YouTube 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.
- api.vidiq.com
vidIQ Vision for YouTube sends data to api.vidiq.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.