Is Viewstats - YouTube analytics safe?
Viewstats records YouTube viewing and interaction events and sends them to api.viewstats.com.
When you use YouTube, the extension records the current page URL, page title, browser user agent, video details, and interaction events such as playback, focus, scrolling, clicks, and navigation. Its background script posts those event batches to Viewstats with fields such as session ID, video ID, channel name, time spent, playback positions, and processing time.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itViewstats - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
Viewstats - no other listings under this identity, 6 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 6 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 1.5.7. 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 youtube.com
https://youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on api.viewstats.com
https://api.viewstats.com/*
Read and change your data on auth.viewstats.com
https://auth.viewstats.com/*
Read and change your data on viewstats.com
https://*.viewstats.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Viewstats - YouTube analytics 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.viewstats.com
Viewstats - YouTube analytics sends data to api.viewstats.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.