The identity.email permission
An extension holding identity.email can
see the email address of the Google account you are signed in with.
We weight it 6 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
- 405
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.6%
- Risk weight
- 6/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 405 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Keep Chrome Extension | Manifest V3 | 7M | 31 |
| WA Web Plus by Elbruz Technologies | Manifest V3 | 2M | 14 |
| Fathom AI Note Taker for Google Meet | Manifest V3 | 500k | 37 |
| Cloudpath Certificate Generator | Manifest V3 | 400k | 10 |
| Meet Attendance | Manifest V3 | 400k | 15 |
| Directo - Travel Deals - Save on Hotels | Manifest V3 | 300k | 75 |
| Custom Calendar Background | Manifest V3 | 200k | 10 |
| Influencer Analytics by Wednesday | Manifest V3 | 100k | 55 |
| Astro | Manifest V3 | 100k | 29 |
| YSoft SAFEQ Chrome Print | Manifest V3 | 100k | 40 |
| Video Translator - Translate Video & Voice online | Manifest V3 | 90k | 10 |
| Record to Slides | Manifest V3 | 80k | 15 |
| Citrix Secure Access | Manifest V3 | 50k | 100 |
| EShare | Manifest V3 | 50k | 60 |
| Google Drive Mini | Manifest V3 | 50k | 48 |
| Auto Flow x G-Labs Automation | Manifest V3 | 40k | 26 |
| AI Chat to Word, PDF & Google Docs - for Gemini | Manifest V3 | 30k | 20 |
| Time Doctor: Workforce Analytics and Time Tracker | Manifest V3 | 20k | 55 |
| Maven Tools for Salesforce | Manifest V3 | 20k | 52 |
| Join | Manifest V3 | 20k | 36 |
| Cledara Engage | Manifest V3 | 20k | 32 |
| crx-gcal-url-opener | Manifest V3 | 10k | 10 |
| Prime Connect - Message Sender | Manifest V3 | 10k | 20 |
| AWAX | Manifest V3 | 10k | 50 |
| Prime Sender - Free WhatsApp Web Message Sender | Manifest V3 | 10k | 20 |
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