Is ViewGrip: For YouTube safe?
ViewGrip generates a canvas/WebGL device fingerprint and sends its hash to viewgrip.net on every YouTube view-boosting worker step.
ViewGrip runs a background 'worker' that automates watching, liking, and subscribing on YouTube in exchange for views on the user's own videos. Before each session and report cycle, it builds a fingerprint from the browser's canvas rendering, WebGL GPU string, screen and hardware details, and automation-detection checks, hashes it, and sends it to viewgrip.net alongside a signed proof-of-work value.
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 5.5.6. 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 your full browsing history
history
Store data in your browser
storage
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
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
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 ViewGrip: 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.
- viewgrip.net
ViewGrip: For YouTube sends data to viewgrip.net. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.