The pointerLock permission
An extension holding pointerLock can
capture your mouse pointer, as games do.
We give it no weight when scoring how much an extension can reach: on its own it exposes nothing about you.
- Extensions we track using it
- 117
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.2%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 117 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Quake | Manifest V2 | 8k | 25 |
| Native Client SDK | Manifest V2 | 4k | 0 |
| LDS Tools | Manifest V2 | 1k | 20 |
| GB Browser | Manifest V2 | 1k | 82 |
| Alpha Browser 2.0 | Manifest V2 | 754 | 82 |
| Amazon AppStream Example Client | Manifest V2 | 596 | 2 |
| iZND - WD My Cloud | Manifest V2 | 153 | 54 |
| App APIs REPL | unknown | 31 | 100 |
| Uptasia | Manifest V2 | 22 | 54 |
| BuzzKill | Manifest V2 | 13 | 0 |
| T4T Second Grade | Manifest V2 | 7 | 54 |
| Classroom ToolBox | Manifest V2 | 5 | 54 |
| slimshaynee webs | Manifest V2 | 4 | 54 |
| Hubitus - Working alone together | Manifest V2 | 4 | 54 |
| Radarchive | Manifest V2 | 4 | 54 |
| TeamOn | Manifest V2 | 3 | 11 |
| Mr. Sankey's Class | Manifest V2 | 3 | 54 |
| Boomr Player | Manifest V2 | — | 54 |
| Colegio Seminario | Manifest V2 | — | 54 |
| Showcases Player | Manifest V2 | — | 67 |
| Freeworldnet | Manifest V2 | — | 10 |
| Social Media Services | Manifest V2 | — | 54 |
| Ballard Browser | Manifest V3 | — | 82 |
| Slideshow App | Manifest V2 | — | 54 |
| TEST | Manifest V2 | — | 54 |
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