Is Youtube ad fast-forwarder safe?
Youtube ad fast-forwarder sends YouTube video IDs, captions, timestamps, and descriptions to its Onrender server.
When a YouTube watch page finishes loading, the extension fetches that video's page and captions, then sends the video ID, caption words with timestamps, and video description to its ad-range detection endpoint. It uses the response to decide which ad ranges to fast-forward and caches the result locally for the video.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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 1.2.8. 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 www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/*
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 Youtube ad fast-forwarder 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.
- youtube-skip-ads-please-oregon.onrender.com
Youtube ad fast-forwarder sends data to youtube-skip-ads-please-oregon.onrender.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.