Is YouTube Music Hotkeys safe?

Low risk

YouTube Music Hotkeys loads a GitHub-hosted image from its options page when shortcut settings are opened.

The extension's options page embeds an image from user-images.githubusercontent.com. When shortcut settings are opened, the browser requests that image from GitHub's image CDN, which can receive the request URL and IP address.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

lidelv3.0.0Chrome Web Store
15Risk
Who publishes it

lidel - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.0. 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 music.youtube.com

    https://music.youtube.com/*

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Music Hotkeys 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.

  • user-images.githubusercontent.com

    YouTube Music Hotkeys sends data to user-images.githubusercontent.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026fgjkdpncbpnlhbdbmelbhmapblgaamkl