Is Links in ChatGPT: access websites, Google Docs and Sheets urls safe?
Links in ChatGPT fetches URLs found in ChatGPT prompts and inserts the fetched page text back into the message.
When you press Enter or click send on chatgpt.com, the extension reads the prompt text, extracts any HTTP or HTTPS links, and asks its background worker to fetch those URLs. It adds extracted page text, or exported Google Docs and Sheets content, to the prompt before resubmitting the message to ChatGPT.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.7. 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 secure site you visit
https://*/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Links in ChatGPT: access websites, Google Docs and Sheets urls 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.
- chatgpt.comwidely used
Links in ChatGPT: access websites, Google Docs and Sheets urls sends data to chatgpt.com. A widely used service: 37 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- docs.google.com
Links in ChatGPT: access websites, Google Docs and Sheets urls sends data to docs.google.com. 20 other extensions we have analysed send data here.