Is Selected Text Searcher safe?
Selected Text Searcher sends selected page text and form selections to Google autocomplete.
When you select text on a webpage, the extension captures the selected text after mouseup and requests autocomplete suggestions for it. If the selection is inside a form field, the selected form text can be used the same way. The request goes to Google autocomplete using the extension's configured Google locale.
Who publishes ithttps://www.facebook.com/browservery - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
https://www.facebook.com/browservery - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 2k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 2 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.48. 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
<all_urls>
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Selected Text Searcher 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.google.<autocomplete_locale>
Selected Text Searcher sends data to www.google.<autocomplete_locale>. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.