Is Whatsapp Chat Backup - Backup WA Messages safe?
Whatsapp Chat Backup sends signed-in account identity and page-view telemetry to Mixpanel from WhatsApp Web and its popup.
When a signed-in user opens the extension popup or uses WhatsApp Web, the shared extension code records a Page View event through Mixpanel. The telemetry can include the page URL, title, referrer, extension storage state, and the extension account user ID, name, and email.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Whatsapp Chat Backup - Backup WA Messages 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-js.mixpanel.comwidely used
Whatsapp Chat Backup - Backup WA Messages sends data to api-js.mixpanel.com. A widely used service: 47 other extensions we have analysed send data here.