Is AMBOSS: Medical Knowledge Everywhere safe?

Clean risk

This extension adds pop-up explanations for medical terms on webpages you visit.

It finds medical terms on webpages and shows AMBOSS explanations, with related media thumbnails where available. Users can click terms to open the corresponding AMBOSS article for more detail, and subscription users can access additional article content and media features. It is available in English and German.

AMBOSSv1.1.92Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

AMBOSS SE - 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
AMBOSS
Declared legal entity
AMBOSS SE
Registered address
Torstraße 19, Berlin 10119, DE
Registered contact
AMBOSS SE

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

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.92. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Show a panel beside the page

    sidePanel

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed AMBOSS: Medical Knowledge Everywhere 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.

  • AMBOSS

    AMBOSS: Medical Knowledge Everywhere sends data to AMBOSS. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 30 September 2026hnlpidgbnmikgkmccephgaljihheckii