Is YouTube Remote safe?
YouTube Remote lets anyone with the six-letter pairing ID control playback and receive media metadata.
On YouTube and YouTube Music pages, the extension creates a PeerJS connection using a six-letter ID and accepts an incoming peer for that ID without another secret or sender check. The connected peer can send playback commands such as next, previous, pause, and volume changes, and the page sends playback state plus the current media title, artist, and artwork every two seconds when metadata changes.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Remote 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.
- 0.peerjs.com
YouTube Remote sends data to 0.peerjs.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- connected PeerJS peer
YouTube Remote sends data to connected PeerJS peer. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.