Is Scopus Document Download Manager safe?

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Scopus Document Download Manager is medium risk. The extension's content script runs on every webpage you visit — not just Scopus — and listens for a browser-internal custom event that any page's JavaScript can fire. When that event is dispatched with a download URL, the extension fetches the target address and invokes the browser's download system. Dynamic analysis confirmed this: dispatching the event from a non-Scopus page caused the extension to make network requests to an external academic publisher without any user interaction.

Is Scopus Document Download Manager safe?

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