Is Browsy - Summarize Video & Webpage safe?
Browsy sends readable page text and page metadata to api.browsy.io when users request webpage summaries.
When a user asks Browsy to summarize a webpage, the extension extracts the page's readable text along with metadata such as the URL and title. It sends that content to Browsy's API to create the summary.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.7.0. 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>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
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 Browsy - Summarize Video & Webpage 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.browsy.io
Browsy - Summarize Video & Webpage sends data to api.browsy.io. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.