Is BiRead - Website’s Parallel Translation | Bilingual Subtitles safe?
BiRead sends visible page text from translated sites to Google, Microsoft, and BiRead translation endpoints.
When page translation is triggered, BiRead collects translatable text from pages matched by its all-sites content scripts and forwards that text to external translation services. It also reports the origin of translated pages to api.biread.com with the extension client ID.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4.7. 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
<all_urls>
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed biread-website%E2%80%99s-parallel 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
biread-website%E2%80%99s-parallel sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api-edge.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com
biread-website%E2%80%99s-parallel sends data to api-edge.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com. 21 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api.biread.com
biread-website%E2%80%99s-parallel sends data to api.biread.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- ngfc3i7kuk.execute-api.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
biread-website%E2%80%99s-parallel sends data to ngfc3i7kuk.execute-api.us-west-1.amazonaws.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.