Is Cool Papers Redirector safe?

Clean risk

Cool Papers Redirector sends selected text from any page to papers.cool when its search fallback runs.

When you use the extension's context-menu redirect on selected text or a link and no known paper ID is found, it extracts words from the selected text. It opens a papers.cool search URL with those words in the query string, so the selected text is sent to papers.cool.

spaces.ac.cnv0.2.1Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

spaces.ac.cn - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
spaces.ac.cn

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.2.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Add items to the right-click menu

    contextMenus

  • Show you desktop notifications

    notifications

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Cool Papers Redirector 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.

  • papers.cool

    Cool Papers Redirector sends data to papers.cool. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026goopbgbhhhionbpfdkkblnbeopfmlihm