Is Youtube Translater safe?
Youtube Translater sends YouTube comment text to Google Translate when you click its Translate button.
On YouTube watch pages, the extension adds a Translate button to comments after the page updates. When you click that button, it reads the selected comment text and sends it to Google Translate for translation into the language saved in the extension settings.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.1.0. 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
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Youtube Translater 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 Translater sends data to translate.googleapis.com. A widely used service: 86 other extensions we have analysed send data here.