Is Visualping: Website change detection, monitoring and alerts safe?
Visualping: Website change detection, monitoring and alerts is medium risk.
Rated medium risk because of who publishes it: 1 of the 1 other listing from the same operator is rated high or critical for malicious behavior. Flagged: Visualping: Website change detection, monitoring and alerts (high).
Who publishes itWEBMONITORING TECHNOLOGIES INC. - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
WEBMONITORING TECHNOLOGIES INC. - 1 other listing 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
1 other listing published from this account, 20k+ 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.
Publishers can request a review.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.8.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 4.12.5, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
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
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms