Is WhatsApp Direct Message safe?
WhatsApp Direct Message sends selected or entered phone numbers to WhatsApp and saves them in Chrome sync storage.
When you use its context-menu action or options page, the extension normalizes the selected or entered phone number, adds the configured country code, and opens it on WhatsApp. It also stores the phone number in Chrome sync storage so the extension can show a phone history in its options page.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.01. 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
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed WhatsApp Direct Message 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.whatsapp.com
WhatsApp Direct Message sends data to api.whatsapp.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.