Is DeepL Translator safe?
Translates full web pages through the DeepL API with a user-provided API key.
This extension lets you save a DeepL API key, choose a target language, and translate the current page’s visible content. It supports automatic language detection, dark mode, and continues translating content as you scroll. The description states that translation uses the DeepL API.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0. 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
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Read and change your data on api-free.deepl.com
https://api-free.deepl.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed DeepL Translator 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.
- DeepL
DeepL Translator sends data to DeepL. Named as a recipient by 2 other extensions we have analysed.