Is Google Scholar Button safe?
Adds a browser button for searching Google Scholar from any web page.
This extension lets you select a paper title or use a web search query to view Google Scholar results in a popup or full screen. It also provides formatted citations, options to save articles to a Scholar library, and links to Google Scholar settings for library links and case law preferences.
Who publishes itGoogle Ireland, Ltd. - 97 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Google Ireland, Ltd. - 97 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 2.0M+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Same operator - 96 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.6. 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 scholar.google.com
*://scholar.google.com/
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Google Scholar Button 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.
- scholar.google.com
Google Scholar Button sends data to scholar.google.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.