Is Read text out loud safe?
Read text out loud sends selected text, page text, and Kindle page images to support.readaloud.app when users start playback.
When a user asks the extension to read selected text or the current tab, it extracts the requested text and sends it to support.readaloud.app for language detection and cloud text-to-speech audio generation. On Kindle reader pages, it screenshots book page images and posts them to the same service for OCR before reading the returned text aloud.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.5.0. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Speak text aloud
tts
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Read text out loud 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.
- support.readaloud.app
Read text out loud sends data to support.readaloud.app. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.