Is Yet Another Flags safe?
Yet Another Flags sends each visited site's hostname to Google DNS and geoip.furman.im to show a country flag.
When a tab loads or becomes active, the extension extracts the hostname from the tab URL and resolves it through dns.google. It then sends the resolved IP address or hostname to geoip.furman.im so it can display the site's country flag, caching results locally.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YAFlags 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.
- dns.google
YAFlags sends data to dns.google. 6 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- geoip.furman.im
YAFlags sends data to geoip.furman.im. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.