Is Search on YouTube safe?
Search on YouTube sends selected page text to YouTube search when you use its context-menu action.
When you highlight text on a page and choose the extension's context-menu search action, it URL-encodes that selected text and opens a YouTube results page. The selected text becomes the search query sent to YouTube; the extension does not show evidence of additional background collection in the confirmed claim.
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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.
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search on 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 on YouTube sends data to www.youtube.com. 18 other extensions we have analysed send data here.