Is Bionic Reading safe?
Bionic Reading sends readable page content and the page URL to its API when you click the extension button.
When you activate Bionic Reading on a webpage, it parses the page with Readability and packages the readable article content, title, byline, excerpt, text, and current URL. It sends that content to api.reader.bionic-reading.com for conversion, then embeds a reader iframe from reader.bionic-reading.com back into the page.
Who publishes itBionic Reading GmbH - no other listings under this identity
Bionic Reading GmbH - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.0.2. 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 every site you visit
*://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Bionic Reading 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.
- api.reader.bionic-reading.com
Bionic Reading sends data to api.reader.bionic-reading.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- reader.bionic-reading.com
Bionic Reading sends data to reader.bionic-reading.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.