My Latent Library browser extension privacy
The extension does one thing: it saves the paper you are reading into your own Latent Library account. This page says exactly what that involves.
What it reads
- On known scholarly sites (arXiv, OpenReview, publishers' journal pages),
it reads the page's public
<meta>tags, the same title, authors and identifiers the page shows anyone, to recognise a paper and light up the toolbar icon. - When you open the popup, it reads the current tab's address and title, so it can offer to save the page you are on.
What it stores
- A pairing token for your own library account, in Chrome's local extension storage on your computer. You create it, and can revoke it, in the library's settings.
- The folder you last saved into, so the form remembers it.
What it sends, and to whom
Only when you press Save: the paper's identifier (an arXiv id, DOI, or the page's address) together with the folder, tags and status you chose, to the library server you paired with, nowhere else.
What it never does
- No analytics, no tracking, no browsing-history collection.
- Nothing is sold, shared, or sent to any third party.
- Nothing leaves your browser unless you press Save.
Questions: this extension belongs to mylatentlibrary.com.