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The alarms permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding alarms can schedule its own code to run at set times, even when you are not using it.

We give it no weight when scoring how much an extension can reach: on its own it exposes nothing about you.

Extensions we track using it
6,183
Share of those we have checked
9.2%
Risk weight
0/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 6,183 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
AdBlock — block ads across the web Manifest V3 61M 70
Adblock Plus - free ad blocker Manifest V3 38M 70
uBlock Origin Lite Manifest V3 18M 62
360 Internet Protection Manifest V3 18M 90
VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection Manifest V3 14M 100
Tampermonkey Manifest V3 12M 100
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Manifest V3 11M 100
Online Security Manifest V3 11M 100
Netflix Party is now Teleparty Manifest V3 10M 10
Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture Manifest V3 8M 100
NordPass® Password Manager & Digital Vault Manifest V3 8M 78
Dark Reader Manifest V3 7M 40
Avira Browser Safety Manifest V3 7M 100
Screencastify - Screen Video Recorder Manifest V3 7M 77
Bitwarden Password Manager Manifest V3 7M 95
Urban VPN Proxy Manifest V3 6M 100
Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok Manifest V3 5M 97
Quillbot: AI Writing Assistant with Humanizer, Paraphraser & AI Detector Manifest V3 5M 70
Norton Safe Search Manifest V3 5M 70
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search for Chrome Manifest V3 5M 75
Custom Cursor for Chrome™ Manifest V3 5M 40
Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker Manifest V3 4M 42
DeepL: translate and write with AI Manifest V3 4M 100
IE Tab Manifest V3 4M 100

Counts are of extensions we have checked ourselves, not of the whole Chrome Web Store. Chrome's own reference for developers: developer.chrome.com. How we weight permissions