Is EachWord - expand your vocabulary safe?
EachWord sends selected or typed vocabulary text to Google Translate for lookup.
EachWord runs a content script on every website and can open an add-word panel from selected page text. When you select or type vocabulary text for translation, it sends that text to Google Translate to retrieve the translation.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.0. 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
*://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Speak text aloud
tts
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed EachWord - expand your vocabulary 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.
- translate.googleapis.comwidely used
EachWord - expand your vocabulary sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.