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The downloads permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding downloads can start downloads and see what you have downloaded.

We weight it 8 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
3,075
Share of those we have checked
4.6%
Risk weight
8/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 3,075 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
Chrome Remote Desktop Manifest V3 37M 28
VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection Manifest V3 14M 100
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Manifest V3 11M 100
Online Security Manifest V3 11M 100
Video Downloader Professional Manifest V3 5M 68
Web PKI Manifest V3 4M 63
Free Download Manager Manifest V3 3M 100
Image Downloader Manifest V3 2M 18
OrangeMonkey Manifest V3 1M 100
TrafficLight Manifest V3 1M 98
Ace Script Manifest V3 1M 100
NeatDownloadManager Extension Manifest V3 700k 93
SingleFile Manifest V3 600k 53
Save Image As PNG Manifest V3 400k 48
Image Downloader - Save pictures Manifest V3 300k 73
Video Downloader - Download M3U8, MP4, HLS and Live Streams Manifest V3 300k 68
NetDocuments Manifest V3 300k 93
1Password Nightly – Password Manager Manifest V3 300k 100
Download All Images Manifest V3 200k 48
Story Saver Manifest V3 200k 35
XDown Manifest V3 200k 88
AIX Downloader(Picture/Video/Music) Manifest V3 200k 78
Tab Session Manager Manifest V3 100k 17
FastSave Manifest V3 100k 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