The desktopCapture permission
An extension holding desktopCapture can
record your screen, a window, or a tab, after you choose which.
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
- 158
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.2%
- Risk weight
- 20/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 158 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture | Manifest V3 | 8M | 100 |
| Screencastify - Screen Video Recorder | Manifest V3 | 7M | 77 |
| Awesome Screen Recorder & Screenshot | Manifest V3 | 4M | 100 |
| Screen Recorder | Manifest V3 | 2M | 20 |
| Screen Recorder & Screenshot App for Chrome | Scrnli | Manifest V3 | 1M | 97 |
| edpuzzle | Manifest V3 | 500k | 77 |
| Bluedot: AI notetaker & Meeting Recorder | Manifest V3 | 80k | 77 |
| Transcreen | Manifest V2 | 80k | 100 |
| Cursorful - Screen Recorder with Auto Zoom | Manifest V3 | 60k | 65 |
| Free Screen Recorder by Vmaker AI | Manifest V3 | 60k | 77 |
| GLIDER.ai Proctoring | Manifest V3 | 60k | 65 |
| CrankWheel Screen Sharing | Manifest V3 | 50k | 42 |
| EShare | Manifest V3 | 50k | 60 |
| IPEVO Whiteboard | Manifest V2 | 30k | 82 |
| Sendspark Video and Screen Recorder | Manifest V3 | 10k | 100 |
| Screen Recorder, Webcam Recorder - Dubb Video | Manifest V3 | 10k | 77 |
| Auto Clicker - MT Auto Clicker [Beta Version] | Manifest V3 | 10k | 69 |
| Comprehend EMR Integration | Manifest V3 | 10k | 67 |
| Web Screenshot | Manifest V3 | 9k | 73 |
| EZCast | Manifest V2 | 8k | 84 |
| サテライトオフィス・先生生徒画面共有機能(生徒) for Google Classroom | Manifest V3 | 6k | 75 |
| MagicGPT | Manifest V3 | 5k | 100 |
| Chromex | Manifest V3 | 4k | 85 |
| Customer Meetings | Manifest V3 | 4k | 80 |
| Airtame Legacy | Manifest V2 | 3k | 32 |
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