Is paperGuard safe?
paperGuard sends page URLs and scraped publication text from recognized paper-search pages to its ranking API.
paperGuard runs on HTTP and HTTPS pages and repeatedly checks whether the current page looks like a supported paper-search site. When it recognizes a page, it collects the current URL and publication-name text from the page and posts that data to its journal ranking endpoint.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0. 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 www.paperguard.cc
https://www.paperguard.cc/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed paperGuard 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.paperGuard.cc
paperGuard sends data to www.paperGuard.cc. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.