Is VidSummize - AI YouTube Summary with Chat GPT safe?

High risk

VidSummize is high risk. Clicking summarize sends video details and the generated summary to VidSummize's Cloud Functions backend: video ID, title, author, summary text, language, OS, and video length, plus page and tab context described in the claim evidence.…

gruenerapfelzehnv1.2.9Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

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Publisher
gruenerapfelzehn
Website
summarizergpt.web.app

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Findings

Video summaries are sent to the VidSummize backend after each summarize click.

Clicking summarize sends video details and the generated summary to VidSummize's Cloud Functions backend: video ID, title, author, summary text, language, OS, and video length, plus page and tab context described in the claim evidence.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

You click the summarize action for a YouTube video.

The extension did this

The extension sends video metadata, generated summary text, and page context to the VidSummize Cloud Functions backend.

Captured request
POSThttps://us-central1-vidsummize.cloudfunctions.net/writeNewSummaryWeb
Fields in the request
  • Video page URL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ (illustrative)

    Identifies the YouTube page being summarized.

  • Video page title
    Example video title (illustrative)

    Describes the specific video or page associated with the summary.

  • Page content
    Transcript and visible page text (illustrative)

    Provides content from the YouTube page that can include the material used to build the summary.

  • Tab context
    Active YouTube tab metadata (illustrative)

    Links the request to the active browser tab where the summary was requested.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.9. 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 youtube.com

    *://*.youtube.com/*

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Updated 30 September 2026gidcfccogfdmkfdfmhfdmfnibafoopic