Is Selection Context Search safe?
Selection Context Search sends selected text and the page URL to the configured search provider when you use its search action.
When you click the extension's popup search icon, its content script sends the selected text and current page URL to the background script. The background inserts those values into the configured search URL and opens the result page; the default configuration includes Google Search.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.19. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Read and change your bookmarks
bookmarks
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Selection Context Search 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.comwidely used
Selection Context Search sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.