Extension permissions and privacy on Chrome and Edge

As of 2026-09-25 01:39 UTC · All reports · Every permission · Methodology

Counted over live listings whose manifest StoreTally has parsed. 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.

Chrome

All-sites access
22.5%
29,396 of 130,405 listings can read and change your data on every website
At the top level (Extensive)
5,988
4.6%: every website, and a powerful capability on top

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By access level

Level Listings Share Users
Extensive 5,988 4.6% at least 747,899,689
Broad 30,932 23.7% at least 192,058,770
Limited 48,216 37.0% at least 100,117,680
Minimal 45,269 34.7% at least 36,095,615

The 15 most requested permissions

Required and optional counted once per listing.

Permission Sensitive Listings Share
storage 70,126 53.8%
activeTab 36,185 27.7%
scripting 28,866 22.1%
tabs 26,240 20.1%
alarms 12,841 9.8%
contextMenus 11,587 8.9%
notifications 9,430 7.2%
sidePanel 9,220 7.1%
downloads 6,305 4.8%
unlimitedStorage 5,976 4.6%
identity 5,949 4.6%
cookies ⚠ 5,110 3.9%
clipboardWrite 4,646 3.6%
offscreen 4,179 3.2%
webNavigation 3,566 2.7%

By category: share at the top level

Categories with fewer than 20 parsed listings are counted under Other.

Category Listings At Extensive Share
make chrome yours 8,901 665 7.5%
productivity 71,143 4,775 6.7%
lifestyle 17,582 485 2.8%
nature 4,684 0 0.0%
games 4,356 0 0.0%
other 3,534 0 0.0%
animals 2,783 0 0.0%
art 2,211 0 0.0%
cars 2,004 0 0.0%
colors 1,133 0 0.0%
entertainment 390 0 0.0%
dark 357 0 0.0%
artist 331 0 0.0%
space 297 0 0.0%
minimalist 263 0 0.0%
Other 10,436 63 0.6%

The most used listings at the top level

# Name Category Users Rating
1 Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools productivity 338,000,000 4.4
2 Adblock Plus - free ad blocker productivity 40,000,000 4.4
3 uBlock Origin Lite make chrome yours 20,000,000 4.5
4 Kami for Google Chrome™ productivity 18,000,000 4.6
5 AdGuard AdBlocker make chrome yours 17,000,000 4.7
6 Claude productivity 16,000,000 2.8
7 VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection make chrome yours 14,000,000 4.2
8 Honey: Automated Coupons & Rewards lifestyle 13,000,000 4.6
9 Tampermonkey productivity 12,000,000 4.7
10 Adblock for Youtube™ productivity 11,000,000 4.4
11 Foxit PDF Creator productivity 9,000,000 2.8
12 NordPass® Password Manager & Digital Vault make chrome yours 9,000,000 4.6
13 Free VPN for Chrome - VPN Proxy 1clickVPN make chrome yours 9,000,000 4.6
14 Avira Password Manager productivity 8,000,000 3.7
15 touchenex 확장 productivity 8,000,000 1.3
16 Zotero Connector productivity 8,000,000 4.0
17 Avira Browser Safety productivity 8,000,000 4.1
18 1Password – Password Manager productivity 7,000,000 3.0
19 Urban VPN Proxy make chrome yours 7,000,000 4.7
20 AnyDoc Translator - Translate Web and PDF productivity 6,000,000 4.6
21 OrbitNote make chrome yours 6,000,000 3.0
22 Norton Password Manager make chrome yours 5,000,000 2.7
23 Phantom productivity 5,000,000 3.7
24 Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search for Chrome productivity 5,000,000 3.8
25 Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok productivity 5,000,000 4.9

Edge

All-sites access
32.2%
6,210 of 19,261 listings can read and change your data on every website
At the top level (Extensive)
2,031
10.5%: every website, and a powerful capability on top

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By access level

Level Listings Share Installs
Extensive 2,031 10.5% 279,370,459
Broad 5,692 29.6% 63,642,377
Limited 5,553 28.8% 25,724,961
Minimal 5,985 31.1% 7,035,360

The 15 most requested permissions

Required and optional counted once per listing.

Permission Sensitive Listings Share
storage 10,924 56.7%
activeTab 5,502 28.6%
tabs 5,128 26.6%
scripting 4,432 23.0%
contextMenus 3,167 16.4%
alarms 2,047 10.6%
notifications 1,601 8.3%
downloads 1,378 7.2%
cookies ⚠ 1,244 6.5%
webRequest ⚠ 1,237 6.4%
unlimitedStorage 1,211 6.3%
sidePanel 1,189 6.2%
declarativeNetRequest 1,115 5.8%
webNavigation 861 4.5%
identity 770 4.0%

By category: share at the top level

Categories with fewer than 20 parsed listings are counted under Other.

Category Listings At Extensive Share
Shopping 546 173 31.7%
Productivity 8,280 1,235 14.9%
Developer-Tools 1,747 260 14.9%
Accessibility 1,082 135 12.5%
Communication 321 40 12.5%
Social 449 36 8.0%
Search-Tools 701 55 7.8%
Blogging 104 8 7.7%
Sports 64 3 4.7%
Entertainment 3,259 60 1.8%
News-And-Weather 167 3 1.8%
Photos 2,145 23 1.1%
Nature-And-Landscapes 92 0 0.0%
Animals 68 0 0.0%
Art-And-Design 57 0 0.0%
Games 47 0 0.0%
Others 46 0 0.0%
Colors 36 0 0.0%
Space 32 0 0.0%
Other 18 0 0.0%

The most used listings at the top level

# Name Category Installs Rating
1 McAfee® WebAdvisor Productivity 21,963,787 3.4
2 AdBlock — block ads across the web Productivity 14,120,338 3.8
3 uBlock Origin Productivity 13,638,822 4.5
4 Tampermonkey Productivity 12,989,485 4.8
5 Grammarly: AI Writing and Grammar Checker App Productivity 11,759,352 3.9
6 Adblock Plus - free ad blocker Productivity 11,114,799 4.0
7 AdGuard AdBlocker Productivity 10,932,598 4.8
8 Microsoft Power Automate Productivity 8,934,543 2.3
9 IDM Integration Module Productivity 7,630,898 3.9
10 Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Productivity 7,538,729 4.2
11 Norton Safe Web Productivity 7,193,372 3.6
12 Snow Web Application Metering Productivity 6,247,579 1.4
13 Global Speed - Video Speed Control Productivity 5,744,744 4.6
14 Capital One Shopping: Save Now Shopping 5,077,433 4.4
15 Zotero Connector Productivity 4,582,765 4.0
16 PayPal Honey: Automated Coupons & Rewards Shopping 4,438,740 4.0
17 Immersive Translate: AI Web, PDF & Video Translator Productivity 3,902,391 3.7
18 LastPass: Free Password Manager Productivity 3,536,570 2.7
19 Avira Password Manager Productivity 3,304,088 4.2
20 Online Security Productivity 3,143,239 4.4
21 Norton Password Manager Productivity 3,032,795 2.9
22 Malwarebytes Browser Guard Productivity 2,966,171 3.8
23 AnyDoc Translator - Translate Web and PDF Productivity 2,880,601 4.2
24 Web Threat Shield Productivity 2,840,684 2.4
25 Bitwarden Password Manager Productivity 2,779,617 4.1