Is YouTube to NotebookLM - YouTube to Gemini Notebook safe?
YouTube to NotebookLM sends saved non-YouTube tab URLs to Mixpanel analytics.
When you use the popup to save a non-YouTube page, the extension reads the active tab URL and includes it in a Mixpanel save_tab analytics event before saving it to NotebookLM. The Mixpanel request also includes extension and browser metadata tied to the extension's distinct analytics ID.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.34. 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 every site you visit
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube to NotebookLM - YouTube to Gemini Notebook 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.
- api.mixpanel.comwidely used
YouTube to NotebookLM - YouTube to Gemini Notebook sends data to api.mixpanel.com. A widely used service: 35 other extensions we have analysed send data here.