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The usb permission

An extension holding usb can talk directly to USB devices you have plugged in.

We weight it 18 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
32
Share of those we have checked
0%
Risk weight
18/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 32 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Smart Card Connector Manifest V2 100k 18
IPEVO Whiteboard Manifest V2 30k 82
KeepKey Client Manifest V2 6k 46
Radio Receiver unknown 4k 18
Strawbees CODE Helper unknown 4k 36
KissFC Manifest V2 3k 38
RapidFlash Manifest V2 2k 42
TKG Chrome App Manifest V2 1k 30
Personlig Sentralbord Manifest V2 1k 70
Cleanflight配置器 Manifest V2 406 48
Smart Citizen Kit Manifest V2 110 48
TTChain Wallet Manifest V3 41 48
读取 USB 与串行接口设备的数据 Manifest V2 36 48
Robbo Scratch 3 Manifest V2 36 36
App APIs REPL unknown 31 100
Ivy Phone Manifest V2 27 70
OnAvaya Manifest V2 20 90
firiPOS Manifest V2 9 58
PenMount Touch Tools Manifest V2 9 18
MyOrderBox Manifest V2 7 42
SyberGate - SPOKES Retail Manifest V2 6 33
Betaflight - Configurator for DYD Manifest V2 6 56
SPort Manifest V2 4 36
Parallax IDE Manifest V2 36
Arduino Create for Education Manifest V2 62

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