Is Paraphrasing safe?
Paraphrasing sends selected page text to OpenAI for rewriting with the user's stored API key.
The extension runs a content script on all sites and reads text the user selects for its rewrite feature. When the user triggers rewriting, it sends that text to OpenAI's chat completions API with the user's saved API key as the authorization token. Its options-page ad banner also sends impression and click events with a persistent local client ID to a Cloudflare Workers endpoint.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itjeff38399green - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
jeff38399green - 1 other listing from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 8k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
Shared hosts - 2 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Paraphrasing 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.
- api.openai.comwidely used
Paraphrasing sends data to api.openai.com. A widely used service: 57 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- ext-ads-mvp.captain-products.workers.dev
Paraphrasing sends data to ext-ads-mvp.captain-products.workers.dev. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.