sachinjain over 1 year ago

UberSuggest Chrome Extension tracks your location data extensively

I was debugging something & searched for jquery in the Network tab and stumbled upon an API call to pro.ip-api.com and when I found the response for the API, I was shell shocked to see the detailed being captured.

Here are the things that I found pro.ip-api.com was capturing about my location

{ "as": "My ISP Pvt Ltd", "city": "My City", "country": "My Country Name", "countryCode": "My Country Code", "isp": "My ISP", "lat": my.lat, "lon": my.long, "org": "Something", "query": "My.Actual.IP", "region": "Quite Close Region Code", "regionName": "Quite Close Region Name", "status": "success", "timezone": "Accurate/Timezone", "zip": "Accurate ZIP" }

PS - The data UberSuggest captures is very scary. I use UberSuggest for SEO purposes. For the time being, I have blocked this API end point with the following Requestly Rule - https://app.requestly.io/rules/#sharedList/1664432223477-Block-Pro-IP-API

More Importantly, UberSuggest fires this on every page/domain. I assume every analytics tool captures Country & City so that'd have been fine but tracking information till region, ISP & ZIP code is unacceptable.

Should I try contacting Neil Patel and tell him about this before dropping a review on Chrome Store.

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