Is Ask Grok for Chrome safe?
Ask Grok for Chrome sends selected page text to www.grok.com when you use its context-menu actions.
When you choose Ask Grok, Translate, or Fact-check from the selection menu, the extension puts the highlighted text into a Grok query and opens it on www.grok.com. The source shows this happens after your menu click, with no host permissions or background page monitoring.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Run searches with your default search engine
search
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Ask Grok for Chrome 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.
- www.grok.com
Ask Grok for Chrome sends data to www.grok.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.