Is Yandex.Bar safe?
Yandex.Bar sends per-navigation URLs, page titles, and referrers to Yandex, and transmits browsing history depth on first install.
When the stat opt-in preference is enabled, the extension captures each page's URL, title, and referrer on every tab navigation and forwards them to bar-navig.yandex.ru along with a per-tab UUID identifier. On first install, the extension retrieves the full browser history, buckets the total entry count and number of active days, and sends those counts to clck.yandex.ru as a usage metric. The browsing-history transmission occurs at install time regardless of the stat preference on Firefox builds unless ENABLE_STAT_OPTION is explicitly set.
Who publishes itYandex - no other listings under this identity, 7 shared hostnames
Yandex - no other listings under this identity, 7 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 7 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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 8.23.3resigned1. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Read and change your full browsing history
history
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Detect when you step away from your computer
idle
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Yandex.Bar 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.
- bar-navig.yandex.ru
Yandex.Bar sends data to bar-navig.yandex.ru. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.
- clck.yandex.ru
Yandex.Bar sends data to clck.yandex.ru. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.