Is Price Tracker 2.0 - Price Graph & Auto Buy Safe? — Extension Safety Profile

This extension requests only a few permissions: notifications (for price alerts), storage (to save settings and tracked items), a push messaging service (gcm), and host access exclusively to the publisher’s own domain, *.indiadesire.com. It cannot read or modify data on any other website. For a price tracking tool, this is unusually minimal—most trackers ask for broad page access to monitor retailer sites directly. Here, the narrow scope suggests the extension relies on a server-side service on indiadesire.com to fetch and compare prices, which limits its direct visibility of your other browsing activity.

Price tracker extensions in general are a category where users should watch for excessive host permissions. Many demand access to all visited websites to scrape product information, which can expose shopping habits or be abused in cloned versions. The auto-buy functionality advertised by this extension could also be a concern if it required injecting scripts into retailer pages, but the constrained host access indicates it may work through the publisher’s own backend rather than browser-side automation. Still, a careful user should verify that the developer’s privacy claims match what permissions actually allow.

The extension scores highest on Maintenance & Ownership, showing an active update schedule and no suspicious ownership changes, while its weakest point is Publisher & Identity, meaning less is publicly established about the entity behind indiadesire.com. The developer’s privacy declaration states they collect personally identifiable information and website content, though given the limited host access, that website content likely comes only from interactions on their own domain. Overall, the permissions are far narrower than typical for this category, which is a positive sign, but the publisher’s lower identity score suggests a degree of caution is still warranted.