Is BibGuru: Free Citation Generator safe?
BibGuru Citation Generator sends page metadata to search.paperpile.com when the user activates it on a page.
When a user clicks the toolbar button, the extension reads the current page's HTML and extracts citation fields — title, authors, DOI, ISBN, URL, and publication type — then transmits that metadata to search.paperpile.com to look up a formatted citation. For PDF pages or certain web pages, it also sends the page URL as a query parameter to search.paperpile.com/works. Network access is restricted to paperpile.com and bibguru.com by the manifest's host permissions.
Who publishes itPaperpile LLC - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Paperpile LLC - 1 other listing from the same operator, none 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, 300k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.85. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on paperpile.com
https://*.paperpile.com/*
Read and change your data on bibguru.com
https://*.bibguru.com/*
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed BibGuru 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.
- search.paperpile.com
BibGuru sends data to search.paperpile.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.