Is ResearchQ safe?
ResearchQ sends selected text or link URLs to Sci-Hub, Anna's Archive, and dictionaryapi.dev when you use its context menus.
When you choose its lookup, download, or dictionary menu items, the extension builds requests from your selected text or link URL and opens or fetches the selected service. For direct Sci-Hub downloads, it also parses the returned page to find a PDF link, but these flows start from your menu selection.
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 1.2.7. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Read and change your full browsing history
history
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed ResearchQ 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.dictionaryapi.dev
ResearchQ sends data to api.dictionaryapi.dev. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- annas-archive.li
ResearchQ sends data to annas-archive.li. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.ru
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.ru. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.se
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.se. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- annas-archive.gl
ResearchQ sends data to annas-archive.gl. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.box
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.box. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.ee
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.ee. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.red
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.red. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- sci-hub.st
ResearchQ sends data to sci-hub.st. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.