Is Translate For Chrome Extension safe?
Translate For Chrome Extension sends selected page text to Google Translate for instant translation.
When you select text on any HTTP or HTTPS page, the extension reads the selected text and asks its background worker to translate it. The background worker sends that text to Google Translate's translate API and returns the translated result to an on-page tooltip.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0. 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.googleapis.com
https://translate.googleapis.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Translate For Chrome 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.
- translate.googleapis.comwidely used
Translate For Chrome Extension sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.