The identity permission
An extension holding identity can
sign you in to its developer’s service using your Google account.
We weight it 4 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
- 2,802
- Share of those we have checked
- 4.2%
- Risk weight
- 4/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 2,802 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools | Manifest V3 | 320M | 100 |
| Grammarly: AI Writing Assistant and Grammar Checker App | Manifest V3 | 38M | 79 |
| Malwarebytes Browser Guard | Manifest V3 | 11M | 100 |
| Google Keep Chrome Extension | Manifest V3 | 7M | 31 |
| Mobility Print | Manifest V3 | 7M | 44 |
| DeepL: translate and write with AI | Manifest V3 | 4M | 100 |
| Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader | Manifest V3 | 4M | 16 |
| Coupert - Automatic Coupon Finder & Cashback | Manifest V3 | 3M | 89 |
| WA Web Plus by Elbruz Technologies | Manifest V3 | 2M | 14 |
| Checker Plus for Gmail™ | Manifest V3 | 1M | 31 |
| Scribbr Citation Generator | Manifest V3 | 1M | 49 |
| Stylus | Manifest V3 | 1M | 89 |
| AIPRM for ChatGPT | Manifest V3 | 1M | 31 |
| StayFocusd – Website Blocker & Focus Timer & Shorts Blocker | Manifest V3 | 700k | 39 |
| Fathom AI Note Taker for Google Meet | Manifest V3 | 500k | 37 |
| Email Extract - Email Extractor Tool | Manifest V3 | 500k | 34 |
| Cloudpath Certificate Generator | Manifest V3 | 400k | 10 |
| Meet Attendance | Manifest V3 | 400k | 15 |
| Directo - Travel Deals - Save on Hotels | Manifest V3 | 300k | 75 |
| Follower Export Tool | Manifest V3 | 300k | 23 |
| Dark Mode - Night Eye | Manifest V3 | 300k | 49 |
| Clockify Time Tracker | Manifest V3 | 300k | 49 |
| Custom Calendar Background | Manifest V3 | 200k | 10 |
| Stylebot | Manifest V3 | 200k | 39 |
| Citavi Picker | Manifest V3 | 200k | 69 |
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