Is Paywall Porter for NotebookLM safe?

Clean risk

Paywall Porter for NotebookLM sends the active tab URL and browser fingerprint fields to Google Analytics during extension events.

When installed, updated, or used for notebook and upload actions, the background script calls the Google Analytics Measurement Protocol. Each event includes the current active tab URL plus client/session IDs, user agent, platform, timezone, language, and country code.

Prabhash Vermav3.0.1Chrome Web Store
2Risk
Who publishes it

Prabhash Verma - 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
Prabhash Verma
Registered address
1162 Kettle Pond Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066, US
Registered contact
PRABHASH VERMA
Website
www.paywallporter.com/feedback

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.0.1. 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 notebooklm.google.com

    https://notebooklm.google.com/*

  • Read and change your data on www.paywallporter.com

    https://www.paywallporter.com/*

  • Read and change your data on www.google-analytics.com

    https://www.google-analytics.com/*

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension

    activeTab

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

  • Start, monitor and manage your downloads

    downloads

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Run hidden pages in the background

    offscreen

  • Attach to pages with the browser's debugger, which can read and rewrite anything on them

    debugger

  • Sign you in with your Google account

    identity

  • Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard

    clipboardRead

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Paywall Porter for NotebookLM 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

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

Updated 30 September 2026efcbfjjkfckbphmcjpacbgpjknkbebgg