Is Hotkeys for Search safe?
Search selected page text with customizable keyboard shortcuts.
This extension lets you select text on a web page and press a shortcut to search that text on a chosen website. Default shortcuts search Google, Wikipedia, Google Images, and YouTube, and options let you change the search sites, shortcut keys, tab behavior, and new-tab position.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Hotkeys for Search 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.
- Googlewidely used
Hotkeys for Search sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 195 other extensions we have analysed.
- YouTubewidely used
Hotkeys for Search sends data to YouTube. Named as a recipient by 46 other extensions we have analysed.
- Wikipedia
Hotkeys for Search sends data to Wikipedia. Named as a recipient by 7 other extensions we have analysed.