The privacy permission
An extension holding privacy can
change your browser’s privacy settings.
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
- 107
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.2%
- Risk weight
- 8/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 107 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection | Manifest V3 | 14M | 100 |
| NordPass® Password Manager & Digital Vault | Manifest V3 | 8M | 78 |
| Free VPN For Chrome - VPN Extension - Windscribe | Manifest V3 | 2M | 100 |
| Keeper® Password Manager & Digital Vault | Manifest V3 | 2M | 100 |
| Dashlane — Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| Surfshark Chrome VPN extension — fast, private, and free to start | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| Privacy Badger | Manifest V3 | 1M | 78 |
| MultiPassword — Password manager | Manifest V3 | 1M | 86 |
| TunnelBear VPN | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| ExpressVPN: VPN & proxy browser extension | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| RoboForm Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 600k | 100 |
| Privacy Test | Manifest V3 | 400k | 33 |
| AdGuard VPN: free & secure proxy | Manifest V3 | 400k | 100 |
| WebRTC Control | Manifest V3 | 300k | 38 |
| 1Password Nightly – Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 300k | 100 |
| Zoho Vault - Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 200k | 100 |
| WebRTC Leak Prevent | Manifest V3 | 90k | 8 |
| Troywell VPN Lite - unlimited VPN proxy | Manifest V3 | 50k | 100 |
| N-able Passportal | Manifest V3 | 40k | 43 |
| Bright Data | Manifest V3 | 20k | 100 |
| C2 Password | Manifest V3 | 20k | 88 |
| heylogin – Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 20k | 100 |
| ARCON Browser Extension | Manifest V3 | 20k | 100 |
| Microsoft Bing InPrivate | Manifest V3 | 10k | 100 |
| ApexGuard VPN Proxy for Chrome | Manifest V3 | 10k | 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