Is YouTube Tags safe?
YouTube Tags sends YouTube watch-page video IDs to Google Analytics with a persistent extension UUID.
On YouTube watch pages, the extension reads the video ID from the page URL while fetching and displaying that video's tags. It sends Google Analytics events for tag loading and tag interactions that include the video ID, along with a persistent extension UUID and user properties such as extension version, language, and country.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 8.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 9.1.1, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/*
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Tags 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.google-analytics.comwidely used
YouTube Tags sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- olpxmd7ib2.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
YouTube Tags sends data to olpxmd7ib2.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.