Skype toolbar spying on the user?

Question

Skype

I noticed a long time ago that the browser slows down and uses the CPU by 30%.
Today, at work, I launched a live HTTP header and saw that several times per second the browser sends the following requests to the local host:

https://localhost:26143/skypectoc/v1/pnr/parse

POST /skypectoc/v1/pnr/parse HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:26143
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Accept: text/plain, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 168
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
{"id":"18756","languages":"en","url":"http://www.ebay.com/sch/Parts-Accessories-/6028/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=pontiac+firebird+3&_vxp=mtr","text":"(Ð¡ÐµÐ³Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ñ 8:15)"}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 31
Content-Type: application/json
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:21:26 GMT

One of the tabs had ebay open. At the same time, id in JSON is constantly incremented. In the windows task manager I found skype click to call, skype toolbar. I didn't install or turn them on. After the completion of these processes, requests stopped pouring.
Who thinks what?
PS I disabled the plug-in in the browser. But I remember that I turned it off before, but it still activates.

Answer 1

in principle, toolbars are not made out of the kindness of their hearts. they are made to monitor users, to know what they are doing and where they are, what they are interested in. At least to give them advertising relevant to their interests (the most harmless thing you can do with such data)