ColibotAI Chrome Extension Rewritten from Scratch to Fix Security and Privacy Issues
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Edoardo Guzzi
Summary
ColibotAI is a Chrome extension that allows users to translate, summarize, and explain text on web pages using AI (starting with ChatGPT). The creator, Edoardo from WebWakeUp, explains that the extension started as a simple highlight-and-translate tool but was completely rewritten from scratch for version 0.8 due to security concerns — the old build stored API keys in chrome.storage.sync (synced to Google accounts) and had broken encryption modules and a flawed regex sanitizer running over AI prompts.
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· 4 pulledThe API key was stored in chrome.storage.sync — i.e. synced to your Google account.
There were 'encryption' modules too, but they were dead code (and broken in a service worker).
A regex 'sanitizer' was being run over the AI prompts themselves, quietly co
ColibotAI allows you to translate or summarize (and more) selected text with just a click, add note and more.
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