Is Qwen Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Alibaba Voices, TTS safe?
Qwen Reader runs text-to-speech through the user's own chat.qwen.ai session by intercepting requests on that site.
On chat.qwen.ai the extension wraps the page's fetch and XMLHttpRequest calls to capture Qwen's anti-bot request headers. It then creates chats, requests completions and deletes the chats on that same site to generate speech audio. The vendor's own server, www.readeon.com, is used for banners, subscriptions and feedback.
Rated medium risk because of who publishes it: 2 of the 8 other listings from the same operator are rated high or critical for malicious behaviour. Flagged: ChatGPT Reader/Transcriber: Free AI Text to Speech/Speech to Text (TTS/STT) (high), Google Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Natural Voices, TTS (high).
Who publishes itdemocraticdeveloper - 8 other listings from the same operator, 2 of them carrying a finding
democraticdeveloper - 8 other listings from the same operator, 2 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
8 other listings published from this account, 35k+ users between them. 2 of them carry 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.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Qwen Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Alibaba Voices, TTS 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.
- chat.qwen.ai
Qwen Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Alibaba Voices, TTS sends data to chat.qwen.ai. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- www.readeon.com
Qwen Reader: Free AI Text to Speech with Alibaba Voices, TTS sends data to www.readeon.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.