Is Scholar Badge for Zotero safe?
Scholar Badge for Zotero sends Google Scholar result titles to a local Zotero server and writes collection names onto the page.
On Google Scholar result pages, the extension asks a local ZotServer instance for Zotero libraries and searches each result title against the local Zotero library. When it finds matches, it inserts the matching Zotero collection names into the Google Scholar page.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1. 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 localhost
http://localhost/*
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Scholar Badge for Zotero 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.
- localhost:23119
Scholar Badge for Zotero sends data to localhost:23119. Named as a recipient by 1 other extensions we have analysed.