Is YouTube Subtitle Word Translator safe?
YouTube Subtitle Word Translator sends clicked YouTube caption words to Google Translate for lookup.
When you click a word in YouTube subtitles, the extension sends that word and the selected target language to Google Translate. It uses the response to show the detected language, translation, and other meanings in a popup on the page.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.3. 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
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Subtitle Word 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.
- translate.googleapis.comwidely used
YouTube Subtitle Word Translator sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.