Is YouTube™ Downloader Lite safe?
YouTube™ Downloader Lite fetches YouTube player scripts and runs extracted code in a Worker when downloads are requested.
When you click its download button on YouTube, the extension reads the current video page URL and looks up the page's HTML5 player script. It fetches that player JavaScript from YouTube, extracts signature-deciphering snippets, and executes them in a data: Worker to build playable media URLs.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.5.6. 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 youtube.com
*://*.youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on googlevideo.com
*://*.googlevideo.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube™ Downloader Lite 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.
- www.youtube.com
YouTube™ Downloader Lite sends data to www.youtube.com. 18 other extensions we have analysed send data here.