Read The Web
#1,308 of 19,279 by installs on Edge · #100 of 1,082 in Accessibility
First seen by this census 09/02/2026 — the store does not publish a creation date
Last updated 04/09/2026
Tracked since 09/02/2026
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Category: Accessibility
Description
Text-to-speech for Web Content
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Growth
Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. This store refreshes its install counts only occasionally, so these figures usually read 0 even for a listing that is growing - the weekly change in ratings under Rating above is the better signal here. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| day | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 1.1 days |
| week | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 7.8 days |
| month | Not enough history yet | |||
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
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Permissions
Access level: Extensive — Reaches every website you visit, and holds a powerful capability as well.
- Reads and changes your data on all websites
- Exchange messages with a program installed on your computer
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
Reads and changes your data on all websites ⚠
- activeTab — See the page you're currently viewing, only when you click the extension
- identity — Get your basic account/profile information for sign-in
- nativeMessaging ⚠ — Exchange messages with a program installed on your computer
- 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