The geolocation permission
An extension holding geolocation can
see your physical location.
We weight it 5 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
- 304
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.5%
- Risk weight
- 5/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 304 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rain Alarm Extension | Manifest V3 | 80k | 9 |
| Bible | Manifest V2 | 80k | 15 |
| Ahgora Ponto Online | Manifest V3 | 40k | 11 |
| Join | Manifest V3 | 20k | 36 |
| Storm Tracker: Hurricane & Tornado Alerts USA | Manifest V3 | 10k | 35 |
| Synology Note Station | Manifest V2 | 10k | 75 |
| Woffu | Manifest V3 | 10k | 7 |
| EZCast | Manifest V2 | 8k | 84 |
| Weather Now! Real time weather report and 3-day forecast | Manifest V3 | 7k | 5 |
| Spaceboard - New tab dashboard | Manifest V3 | 6k | 70 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo - Cristiano Ronaldo HD wallpaper | Manifest V3 | 5k | 7 |
| Clima | Manifest V2 | 5k | 35 |
| Weather Please | Manifest V3 | 4k | 9 |
| Tab With a View | Manifest V3 | 3k | 32 |
| One Piece Wallpaper - one piece 4k wallpaper | Manifest V3 | 3k | 7 |
| Mickey Mouse Wallpaper - Mickey Mouse cute wallpaper | Manifest V3 | 2k | 7 |
| Scenery Tab | Manifest V3 | 1k | 11 |
| LDS Tools | Manifest V2 | 1k | 20 |
| Rafiq: productivity new tab | Manifest V3 | 1k | 5 |
| Huboh AI - Your Intelligent Assistant for Marketplaces | Manifest V3 | 1k | 50 |
| Area Measure | Manifest V2 | 1k | 5 |
| Night Search | Manifest V3 | 1k | 10 |
| Speck | Manifest V2 | 946 | 27 |
| Simet[dev] | Manifest V2 | 847 | 5 |
| Weather | Manifest V2 | 763 | 35 |
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