Is Simple Select to Translate safe?
Simple Select to Translate sends selected text and page URLs to Google Translate when you use its translation actions.
The extension runs on all websites so it can detect selected text and show a translate icon after you select text. When you click the icon or use its context-menu actions, it sends selected text to translate.googleapis.com or opens Google Translate with the selected text or current page URL.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.0.7. 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 localhost
http://localhost/*
Read and change your data on every site you visit
*://*/*
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Simple Select to Translate 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.
- translate.googleapis.comwidely used
Simple Select to Translate sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- translate.google.comwidely used
Simple Select to Translate sends data to translate.google.com. A widely used service: 44 other extensions we have analysed send data here.