Is Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS safe?

Clean risk

Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS injects Google Fonts into every HTTP/HTTPS page and ships Backenster API credentials.

Its content script runs on every HTTP and HTTPS page and appends a Google Fonts stylesheet, which makes pages request fonts.googleapis.com during browsing and sends normal request metadata such as IP address and referrer. The extension bundle also contains hardcoded Backenster authorization keys used by its translation, dictionary, OCR, and text-to-speech calls.

uLanguage Appv1.4.11Chrome Web Store
2Risk
Who publishes it

uLanguage App - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
uLanguage App
Registered address
208 Witmer St, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA

Shared hosts - 1 hostname

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.

backenster.com
Also called by 6 other listings, including Lingvanex, Translate for Chrome -Translator, Dictionary, Lingvanex - Translator and Dictionary

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4.9. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 1.4.11, which we have not unpacked yet.

  • Read and change your data on every site you visit

    <all_urls>

  • 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

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS 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.

  • fonts.googleapis.comwidely used

    Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS sends data to fonts.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 123 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

  • backenster.com

    Translate - Translator, Dictionary, TTS sends data to backenster.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026mnlohknjofogcljbcknkakphddjpijak