Is Capital One Shopping: Save Now safe?
Capital One Shopping collects Amazon purchase history, inferred location, and cross-site cookies and sends them to its servers.
On install and on session refresh, the extension silently fetches the user's Amazon order history and Prime membership status using the user's active Amazon cookies, then infers approximate geolocation by scraping the user's Google Maps page. It also reads the browser's full cookie jar to identify which shopping retailers the user has visited. All of this data is combined and sent as a JSON payload to capitaloneshopping.com.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itCapital One Shopping - no other listings under this identity, 10 shared hostnames
Capital One Shopping - no other listings under this identity, 10 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 10 hostnames
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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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.1219. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Capital One Shopping: Save Now 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.
- capitaloneshopping.com
Capital One Shopping: Save Now sends data to capitaloneshopping.com. 4 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.