ReaderView
#117,574 of 272,478 by installs on Chrome · #10,037 of 20,551 in make chrome yours
First seen by this census 09/01/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 07/25/2025
Tracked since 09/01/2026
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Category: make chrome yours / functionality
Languages: English
Description
Get distraction-free reading like Safari's Reader View. Removes ads, popups, and autoplay videos for better reading.
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Growth
Change in installs. This store publishes the count rounded to one or two significant figures, so it does not move when the listing grows - it moves when the rounding rolls over. The figures below are therefore what was actually observed between the two crawls named in "measured over", not scaled to the window, and the percentage is of that same rounding step - so a small listing crossing a bucket shows a very large one. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | +2 | — | +2 | 1.1 days |
| week | +2 | — | +2 | 13.2 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
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Permissions
Access level: Broad — Reaches every website you visit, or holds a powerful capability.
- Change which websites may use your camera, microphone, location, cookies and more
Ad blockers, password managers and VPNs need this kind of access to do their job. This describes what the extension can reach, not how it behaves.
Manifest V3
No website access
- activeTab — See the page you're currently viewing, only when you click the extension
- contentSettings ⚠ — Change which websites may use your camera, microphone, location, cookies and more
- declarativeNetRequest — Block or modify web requests using a predefined rule set
- declarativeNetRequestFeedback — See which of your web requests its blocking rules matched
- scripting — Run scripts on web pages you visit
- storage — Save its own settings and data locally
- tabs — See your open tabs and the pages you're on