Is YouTube Genius safe?
YouTube Genius fetches Genius embed code and injects Genius-delivered scripts into YouTube pages.
When used on YouTube, YouTube Genius requests Genius embed code for a detected song from genius.com. It parses that response, extracts a Genius-controlled script URL, and appends the script into the YouTube page DOM to display lyrics-related content.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Genius 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.
- genius.com
YouTube Genius sends data to genius.com. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.