Is ZoomText Smart Invert safe?

Clean risk

ZoomText Smart Invert can send page image URLs to a local ZoomText proxy when proxy image processing is enabled.

The extension runs on HTTP and HTTPS pages and can inspect image and background-image URLs. When its proxy processing mode is enabled, it sends those image URLs with request details to a local ZoomText service for image enhancement.

Freedom Scientificv1.0.14Chrome Web Store
2Risk
Who publishes it

Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Freedom Scientific
Declared legal entity
Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC
Registered address
17757 US Hwy 19 N Suite 200, Clearwater, FL 33764-3502, US
Registered contact
John Palenchar

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 5k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

Same operator - 1 listing

Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.14. 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

    http://*/*

  • Read and change your data on every secure site you visit

    https://*/*

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

  • Schedule its own background tasks

    alarms

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed ZoomText Smart Invert 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.

  • localhost:8088

    ZoomText Smart Invert sends data to localhost:8088. Named as a recipient by 2 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 30 September 2026gblgfbgdhlkjnkfdbpmdhdkhhbbhfkca