Is Dropin safe?
Dropin embeds an OpenAI API key and uses it as the bearer credential for chat-completion requests.
When users ask Dropin to explain or chat about text, the extension sends that prompt text to OpenAI's chat-completions API. The shipped source includes a hardcoded OpenAI API key, stores it in local extension storage after login, and uses it as the default bearer credential for those requests.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.1. 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>
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Dropin 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
Dropin sends data to api.openai.com. A widely used service: 76 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.