Is Web Translator safe?
Web Translator overrides the browser's default search engine and new tab page to route all searches through search.web-translater-tab.com.
On installation, the extension sets search.web-translater-tab.com as the default search provider via chrome_settings_overrides, redirecting every address-bar query to that domain. It also replaces the new tab page with a custom page containing a search form that submits queries directly to the same third-party domain. No disclosure of this routing is presented to the user.
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Findings
Address-bar searches route to Web Translator
When Web Translator is installed, Chrome applies the extension's default-search override.
Searches typed into the address bar are routed to search.web-translater-tab.com, placing the search terms in the request URL sent to that domain.
What actually happens
You install Web Translator.
Chrome routes address-bar searches to the extension's configured search domain.
The request includes the words you typed as the search query.
Fields sent by the default search provider override
- Search termsweather tomorrow (illustrative)
The words you type into Chrome's address bar are sent as the query.
- Search request URLhttps://search.web-translater-tab.com/search?q=weather%20tomorrow (illustrative)
The destination URL shows which service receives the address-bar search.
Captured request
The code that does this
The shipped manifest sets Web Translator as the default search provider
Readable equivalent of the search override
manifest.json"chrome_settings_overrides": { "search_provider": { "encoding": "UTF-8", "favicon_url": "https://web-translater-tab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/icon-128.png", "is_default": true, "keyword": "Keyword", "name": "Web Translator", "search_url": "https://search.web-translater-tab.com/search?q={searchTerms}" }}External search destination
- search.web-translater-tab.com
Receives Chrome address-bar search requests configured by the extension's default search provider override.
New-tab searches submit to Web Translator
When you use the search box on Web Translator's new tab page, the extension submits the text to search.web-translater-tab.com.
The form uses GET, so the search query is placed in the request URL rather than a request body.
What actually happens
You submit a search from the extension's new-tab page.
The page sends the search text to search.web-translater-tab.com as a GET request.
Because the form uses GET, the query appears in the request URL.
Fields sent by the new-tab search form
- Search textweather tomorrow (illustrative)
The words you enter in the new-tab search box are sent as the query.
- Request URLhttps://search.web-translater-tab.com/search?q=weather+tomorrow (illustrative)
The query is visible in the URL sent to the search service.
Captured request
The code that does this
The new-tab page's form submits searches to the Web Translator search host
Readable new-tab override
manifest.json"chrome_url_overrides": { "newtab": "options.html"}Readable search form
options.html<form method="get" action="https://search.web-translater-tab.com/search"> <div class="form-group"> <label for="text">Enter Text:</label> <textarea class="form-control" rows="5" name="q" id="text"></textarea> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 text-center"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary mb-5 theme-btn mr-1" id="translator_btn">Translate</button> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary mb-5 theme-btn ml-1" id="search_btn">Search</button> </div> <div class="col-md-12"> <p id="error" class="text-danger"></p> </div> </div></form>External search destination
- search.web-translater-tab.com
Receives new-tab search form submissions from the extension page.
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.
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Web Translator 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.
- search.web-translater-tab.com
Web Translator sends data to search.web-translater-tab.com. No other extension we have analyzed sends data here.