The audioCapture permission
An extension holding audioCapture can
use your microphone.
We weight it 20 out of 100 when scoring how much an extension can reach. That is a measure of capability, not of behaviour: plenty of extensions need this to do their job.
- Extensions we track using it
- 66
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.1%
- Risk weight
- 20/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 66 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcreen | Manifest V2 | 80k | 100 |
| Synology Note Station | Manifest V2 | 10k | 75 |
| Webcam | Manifest V2 | 10k | 42 |
| App Launcher for Inbox by Gmail App | Manifest V2 | 7k | 52 |
| CamDesk | Manifest V2 | 6k | 42 |
| WFduino for Scratch | Manifest V2 | 2k | 40 |
| GB Browser | Manifest V2 | 1k | 82 |
| Little Bridge English | Manifest V2 | 1k | 30 |
| Personlig Sentralbord | Manifest V2 | 1k | 70 |
| Alpha Browser 2.0 | Manifest V2 | 754 | 82 |
| Aura AI Scribe | Manifest V3 | 698 | 32 |
| Speak Up | Manifest V2 | 396 | 20 |
| Aikuma NG | Manifest V2 | 253 | 42 |
| Talk to Text | Manifest V3 | 189 | 40 |
| Goat Simulator | Manifest V2 | 170 | 64 |
| Shadowing — English pronunciation on YouTube | Manifest V3 | 92 | 46 |
| Note Taker | Manifest V2 | 92 | 20 |
| Swapcast | Manifest V2 | 88 | 100 |
| SenderServices.com | Manifest V2 | 69 | 64 |
| Meeting Fuse | Manifest V2 | 41 | 52 |
| Ascii Camera Capture Example | Manifest V2 | 40 | 42 |
| Niki | Manifest V2 | 36 | 34 |
| Zero Disrupt - get sh#t done | Manifest V3 | 36 | 25 |
| App APIs REPL | unknown | 31 | 100 |
| Ivy Phone | Manifest V2 | 27 | 70 |
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