Is Text Reader safe?
Text Reader can send text from pages or selections you ask it to read to support.readaloud.app for language detection.
When you use Text Reader to read a page or selected text, it gathers a text sample from the active tab to identify the language. If the sample is short or local browser detection is unavailable or inconclusive, it posts that text to support.readaloud.app's language-detection endpoint.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2. 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 translate.google.com
https://translate.google.com/
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Speak text aloud
tts
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Text Reader 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.
- support.readaloud.app
Text Reader sends data to support.readaloud.app. 4 other extensions we have analysed send data here.