Is Sprout SEO Extension 🌱 safe?
Sprout SEO Extension reads AI chat and Google AI Overview content for its local AI Search history.
Its AI Search feature gets ChatGPT conversations using the page's access token, intercepts Gemini and Google Search AI Overview responses, and extracts prompts, queries, citations, and related page data. The extracted items are written to local browser storage under AI Search cache and history entries rather than sent to the extension developer in the reviewed claims.
Who publishes itUser Growth - Content Marketing, SEO, and Paid Media Agency - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
User Growth - Content Marketing, SEO, and Paid Media Agency - no other listings under this identity, 2 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Sprout SEO Extension 🌱 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.
- chatgpt.comwidely used
Sprout SEO Extension 🌱 sends data to chatgpt.com. A widely used service: 37 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- chat.openai.comwidely used
Sprout SEO Extension 🌱 sends data to chat.openai.com. A widely used service: 27 other extensions we have analysed send data here.