Is Weather New Tab safe?
Weather New Tab sends granted location coordinates to OpenWeather and search terms to feed.weathernewtab.com.
When its new-tab page loads and the user grants geolocation permission, the extension requests weather data from api.openweathermap.org with latitude and longitude in the URL. Its search box also opens feed.weathernewtab.com with the typed query plus publisher and barcode identifiers.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.4. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read your physical location
geolocation
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Weather New Tab 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.openweathermap.orgwidely used
Weather New Tab sends data to api.openweathermap.org. A widely used service: 32 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- feed.weathernewtab.com
Weather New Tab sends data to feed.weathernewtab.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.