Is Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) safe?
Better Lyrics for YouTube Music sends the song you're playing (title, artist, album, video ID) to several third-party lyrics services to fetch matching lyrics.
On music.youtube.com the extension reads your now-playing track and queries lyric providers including boidu.dev, lrclib.net, and a separately-operated backend at lyrics.api.dacubeking.com, which it authenticates to with a stored token after solving a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge. If you turn on lyric translation or romanization, it also sends the raw lyric text to Google's translate endpoint. All of this runs only on YouTube Music and is part of the extension's core lyrics feature.
Who publishes itBoidushya - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Boidushya - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 7k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
Shared hosts - 14 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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 2.4.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 3.0.1, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on music.youtube.com
*://music.youtube.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) 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.
- translate.googleapis.comwidely used
Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 92 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- lyrics.api.dacubeking.com
Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) sends data to lyrics.api.dacubeking.com. 2 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.
- lrclib.net
Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) sends data to lrclib.net. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.
- lyrics-api.boidu.dev
Better Lyrics (Lyrics for YouTube Music) sends data to lyrics-api.boidu.dev. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.