Is Genius Lyrics for YouTube Music safe?
Genius Lyrics for YouTube Music sends the current song artist and title to Genius when lyrics are opened.
When you open the lyrics tab on YouTube Music, the extension reads the current song artist and title from the page. It sends those values as a search query to Genius, then embeds the matching Genius lyrics page if one is found.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1. 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 genius.com
*://*.genius.com/*
Read and change your data on music.youtube.com
*://*.music.youtube.com/*
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Genius Lyrics for YouTube Music 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.
- genius.com
Genius Lyrics for YouTube Music sends data to genius.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- genius.com/api/search/multi
Genius Lyrics for YouTube Music sends data to genius.com/api/search/multi. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.