Is Search in YouTube safe?
Search in YouTube sends selected page text to YouTube when its context-menu search action is used.
The extension adds a right-click menu item for selected text on a page. When the user chooses that action, it opens YouTube search with the selected text encoded in the search_query URL parameter.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.2resigned1. 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
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search in YouTube 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.
- www.youtube.com
Search in YouTube sends data to www.youtube.com. 18 other extensions we have analysed send data here.