Is BrowserGPT: ChatGPT Anywhere Powered by GPT 4 safe?
This extension adds AI writing, chat, translation, and summarization tools across web pages, Google Docs, social platforms, and search.
It provides a sidebar with HIX Chat and more than 120 writing tools for tasks such as paraphrasing, grammar fixes, simplification, summaries, and translation. It also offers a text-selection toolbar and Google Docs support, plus tools for drafting emails, replies, social posts, comments, and search-engine answers.
Who publishes itHIX.AI - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
HIX.AI - 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, 3k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.1.8. 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 hix.ai
https://hix.ai/*
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Write to your clipboard
clipboardWrite
Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard
clipboardRead
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed BrowserGPT 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.
- ChatGPT
BrowserGPT sends data to ChatGPT. Named as a recipient by 7 other extensions we have analysed.
- HIX Chat
BrowserGPT sends data to HIX Chat. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.