Is Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Creator, Webpage to PDF Converter tools safe?
Wondershare PDFelement reads the active tab's cookies and full page snapshot and forwards them to the locally installed PDFelement desktop app via native messaging.
When a user triggers a PDF conversion action, the extension collects all cookies for the active tab's URL along with an MHTML capture of the page. This data is sent through Chrome's native messaging channel to the com.pdfelement.chromeaddin (or com.pdfexpert.chromeaddin for Chinese locale) host process on the user's machine. No data is transmitted to remote servers; the transfer is local-only, from the browser to the desktop application.
Who publishes itwww.hipdf.com - no other listings under this identity
www.hipdf.com - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.3.2. 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>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Save the full contents of any page you visit
pageCapture
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Creator, Webpage to PDF Converter tools 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.
- com.pdfelement.chromeaddin (local native host)
Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Creator, Webpage to PDF Converter tools sends data to com.pdfelement.chromeaddin (local native host). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.
- com.pdfexpert.chromeaddin (local native host, Chinese locale)
Wondershare PDFelement - PDF Creator, Webpage to PDF Converter tools sends data to com.pdfexpert.chromeaddin (local native host, Chinese locale). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.