Is WhatsApp Web Privacy Extension by SheetWA safe?

Clean risk

WhatsApp Web Privacy Extension by SheetWA fetches selector configuration from testbackend.sheetwa.com when WhatsApp Web loads.

On install, update, and when WhatsApp Web loads, the extension requests a selector list from testbackend.sheetwa.com and caches matching selector names in local browser storage. The refresh is throttled to once every six hours, and the recorded claim and source do not show WhatsApp message content, cookies, or page DOM being included in the request body.

Samarthv0.6.424Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

Samarth - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Samarth

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 30k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

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 WhatsApp Web Privacy Extension by SheetWA 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.

  • testbackend.sheetwa.com

    WhatsApp Web Privacy Extension by SheetWA sends data to testbackend.sheetwa.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026ijjffbbcdniighemmlagpgpgojofapif