The background permission
An extension holding background can
keep running in the background while Chrome is open.
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
- 382
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.6%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 382 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobility Print | Manifest V3 | 7M | 44 |
| vidIQ Vision for YouTube | Manifest V3 | 3M | 60 |
| HubSpot Sales | Manifest V3 | 1M | 75 |
| Steam Inventory Helper | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| Helium 10 for Amazon Sellers, Influencers, and Walmart Sellers | Manifest V3 | 1M | 43 |
| Color Picker for Chrome™ | Manifest V3 | 700k | 40 |
| Email Finder by ContactOut – Email Lookup Tool | Manifest V3 | 600k | 31 |
| HARPA AI: Web Automation with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok | Manifest V3 | 300k | 83 |
| 아이템스카우트 | Manifest V3 | 300k | 75 |
| VoiceNote II - Speech to text | Manifest V2 | 300k | 4 |
| Clockify Time Tracker | Manifest V3 | 300k | 49 |
| ID.me Shop: Discover Community Discounts | Manifest V3 | 200k | 85 |
| Reverso – Translation, dictionary | Manifest V3 | 200k | 65 |
| feedly | Manifest V2 | 200k | 30 |
| QuestionAI Homework Powered AI Assistant | Manifest V3 | 100k | 90 |
| BetterBLOX - Better Roblox Extension | Manifest V3 | 100k | 28 |
| Youtube Unblocked | Manifest V3 | 100k | 85 |
| Email Finder for LinkedIn - LeadLeaper | Manifest V3 | 100k | 7 |
| Superhuman Mail | Manifest V3 | 100k | 45 |
| Send Anywhere For Gmail | Manifest V3 | 100k | 40 |
| Rain Alarm Extension | Manifest V3 | 80k | 9 |
| Multi Email Forward by cloudHQ | Manifest V3 | 80k | 14 |
| 西柚洞察（原西柚找词）——每小时亚马逊关键词ABA排名更新 | Manifest V3 | 70k | 17 |
| Auto BCC for Gmail™ by cloudHQ | Manifest V3 | 60k | 14 |
| Ads Check by SMIT | Manifest V3 | 50k | 6 |
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