Is YT Siphon safe?

Clean risk

Redirects YouTube video pages to a configured alternative frontend.

This extension opens a YouTube video in the configured frontend when you press Alt+J on a YouTube video page. It can also open a YouTube video in that frontend in a new tab when you Shift+Click a video while browsing YouTube. It has permissions for YouTube pages, tabs, scripting, the active tab, and stored settings.

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Who publishes it

f3.al - no other listings under this identity

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

Publisher
f3.al

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed YT Siphon 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.comwidely used

    YT Siphon sends data to www.youtube.com. A widely used service: 50 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

  • youtube.comwidely used

    YT Siphon sends data to youtube.com. A widely used service: 45 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-2817688