Is Lookup Word in Dictionary safe?
Lookup Word in Dictionary sends selected text from the active tab to Google Analytics before opening Merriam-Webster.
When you use the context menu or Alt+W shortcut to look up highlighted text, the extension posts the selected word and lookup timing to Google Analytics. It then opens Merriam-Webster with the selected word in the dictionary URL.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.9. 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 site you visit
<all_urls>
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Lookup Word in Dictionary 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.
- www.google-analytics.comwidely used
Lookup Word in Dictionary sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- www.merriam-webster.com
Lookup Word in Dictionary sends data to www.merriam-webster.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.