Is Weatherly (Weather Forecast) safe?
Weatherly sends the user's IP address to ip-api.com over plain HTTP on install and every 25 minutes to resolve location for weather lookups.
On install and on a recurring 25-minute alarm, the extension fetches http://ip-api.com/json/ without TLS. The response — containing city, region, country, and coordinates — is used to determine the user's default weather location when none has been set manually. Because the request uses plain HTTP, the user's IP address and the returned location data travel in cleartext, observable by any network intermediary.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itRafi Haidari - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.9. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Detect when you step away from your computer
idle
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Weatherly (Weather Forecast) 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.
- ip-api.comwidely used
Weatherly (Weather Forecast) sends data to ip-api.com. A widely used service: 73 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.