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SpotiAds - Ads remover for Spotify™

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Risk Score
4.62
Risk Level: Medium
Recommendation: 🟡 MEDIUM RISK — review
Category Adblock
Installs 80,000
Rating 4.1
Last updated 2025-08-18 (10 months ago)
Manifest version MV3
CSP present ❌ no
Developer tomer8007@gmail.com
Verified publisher ❌ no
Featured by Google ❌ no
Privacy policy link
Web Store open ↗

Top Risks

  • Brand impersonation: uses Spotify™ trademark in name/title; developer is unaffiliated gmail user with no business identity.
  • Privacy policy is Google's generic account policy (scope_extension=false, admits data collection + 3rd-party sharing) — counts as worse-than-no-policy under v3.5 rules.
  • External JS host sweetalert2.github.io loaded at runtime with no CSP; github.io CDN could serve arbitrary JS to Spotify pages.
  • Free-webmail developer (gmail) with no verified business identity raises accountability and future-sale risk.
  • webRequest on Spotify origin with no CSP allows potential request interception/modification of Spotify session traffic.

Evidence

  • brand_impersonation store brand_mention.is_impersonation=true, confirmed_owner=false; developer_domain is gmail.com, not spotify.com.
  • generic_privacy_policy store Policy URL is Google account policy; scope_extension=false, data_collection=true, third_party_sharing=true → +10.0 privacy.
  • external_js_host_no_csp crx js_external_hosts includes sweetalert2.github.io; csp_present=false; remote code could be loaded with no integrity check.
  • free_webmail_developer store developer_email=tomer8007@gmail.com; no business website; no verified publisher badge.
  • webrequest_permission manifest webRequest declared; host scoped to open.spotify.com/* only — justified for ad-blocking category.
  • no_csp_mv3 manifest content_security_policy=null; MV3 has strict default but external host contacts add network risk.
  • no_bad_hosts_or_cves crx cve_findings_raw=[], bad_host_hits=[], code_findings_raw=[]; no active malicious signals detected.
  • obfuscation_clean crx obfuscation_score=0.0; all 7 JS files scanned with no suspicious findings.

Permissions Breakdown

  • webRequest high Can observe and intercept all network requests on matched hosts; core ad-blocking capability but high-risk permission.
  • host_permissions: https://open.spotify.com/* medium Scoped to Spotify Web Player only; limits blast radius but grants full request/content access on that origin.
  • content_scripts: https://open.spotify.com/* medium Injects JS into Spotify pages; scoped narrowly but can read/modify all page content and DOM on that site.

Pillar Scores

Permissions4.00
Reputation7.50
Network2.00
Webstore4.50
Maintenance1.50
Privacy10.00
Code Quality0.00
CVE Exposure0.00

Bookkeeping

Rubric v3.6
Scored at 2026-06-16 07:55
Listing SHA b38458bddfdb…
Force block — not fired
Score recovered no
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