Is Weather Tab safe?
Weather Tab sends your device location and typed city searches to weatherextension.com to show weather.
The new-tab page asks the browser for your geolocation and sends the latitude and longitude to weatherextension.com to load local weather. If location is unavailable, the server estimates it from your IP address, and city names you search for are also sent to that server. The extension has no content scripts or host permissions and does not read pages or browsing history.
Who publishes itTim - 10 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Tim - 10 other listings 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
10 other listings published from this account, 417k+ 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.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed WeatherTab 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.
- weatherextension.com
WeatherTab sends data to weatherextension.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.