Is PaperDebugger safe?

Low risk

PaperDebugger sends Overleaf page URLs and hashed page titles to Google Analytics when its page script initializes.

On Overleaf pages, the extension initializes its page script and posts a page_view event to Google Analytics. The event includes the full current page URL as page_location and a SHA-1-hashed document title as page_title.

Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.

Paper Debuggerv2.39.0Chrome Web Store
15Risk
Who publishes it

Paper Debugger - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Paper Debugger

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed PaperDebugger 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

    PaperDebugger sends data to www.google-analytics.com. A widely used service: 346 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026dfkedikhakpapbfcnbpmfhpklndgiaog