Is Right-Click Search Google Scholar safe?
Right-Click Search Google Scholar opens selected page text as a Google Scholar query in a new background tab.
When you choose its context-menu item, the extension URL-encodes the highlighted text and opens Google Scholar with that text in the search query. The behavior is limited to text you selected for that search, based on the confirmed claim and source code.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.0. 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
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Right-Click Search Google Scholar 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.
- scholar.google.com
Right-Click Search Google Scholar sends data to scholar.google.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.