Is ChatGPT For Chrome - ChatGPT assistant safe?

Clean risk

ChatGPT For Chrome sends search-result queries to OpenAI to generate its sidebar answers.

On supported search-result pages, the extension reads the current search box value and uses it as the prompt for its ChatGPT sidebar. It sends that query to ChatGPT with the user's ChatGPT session token, or to OpenAI's completions API when the user configures an API key provider.

hamingoearnestv1.17.4Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

hamingoearnest - 2 other listings 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.

Publisher
hamingoearnest

Same store account

2 other listings published from this account, 23k+ 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 1.17.4. 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 openai.com

    https://*.openai.com/

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed ChatGPT For Chrome - ChatGPT assistant 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.openai.comwidely used

    ChatGPT For Chrome - ChatGPT assistant sends data to api.openai.com. A widely used service: 57 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

  • chat.openai.comwidely used

    ChatGPT For Chrome - ChatGPT assistant sends data to chat.openai.com. A widely used service: 27 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026elnanopkpogbhmgppdoapkjlfigecncf