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Is Google Scholar Button safe?

This security report analyses whether Google Scholar Button is safe to install on your browser. We check Google Scholar Button for malicious behaviour, data exfiltration, suspicious permissions, and known vulnerabilities so you can decide if Google Scholar Button is safe for your personal or enterprise fleet.

Clean risk

Google Scholar Button is a legitimate Google extension that enables academic paper search from any webpage. All network activity is limited to scholar.google.com and Google CDN endpoints, with no third-party data transmission.

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