Is Dictionariez: Your Dictionary, Your Language safe?

Low risk

Dictionariez lets visited pages send supplied text to pnl.dev through its translation bridge.

Its content script runs on all sites and accepts page postMessage requests for translation, then the background code posts the provided text and language settings to https://pnl.dev/api/translate. This means a script on a page where the extension runs can trigger translation requests using the extension session, without opening the extension UI.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

Riverv8.1.1Chrome Web Store
15Risk
Who publishes it

River - no other listings under this identity, 4 shared hostnames

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

Publisher
River

Shared hosts - 4 hostnames

Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.

en.bab.la
Also called by 4 other listings, including Click dictionary, CWS: Chinese Dictionary + Pinyin Annotator
japandict.com
Also called by 4 other listings, including Subtitles for Language Learning (Prime Video), Glot Extension
en.m.wiktionary.org
Also called by 5 other listings, including Readlang
folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se
Also called by 5 other listings, including Readlang

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

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Dictionariez: Your Dictionary, Your Language 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.

  • pnl.dev

    Dictionariez: Your Dictionary, Your Language sends data to pnl.dev. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026diojcfpekhhnndfmggknljpnfpcccbhc