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How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access
How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access I used to install Chrome extensions the way most people install them: I saw a useful feature, checked a few reviews, clicked install, and moved on. That sounds normal because it is normal. Extensions are supposed to feel lightweight. A screenshot...
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The Hardest Part of Explaining Browser Permissions to Normal Users
When I started building Extension Permission Monitor, I thought the hardest part would be technical. I expected the difficult work to be learning Chrome APIs, reading installed extensions, calculating risk scores, handling edge cases, and making the dashboard fast enough to feel useful. Those parts mattered. But they...
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How I Built Extension Permission Monitor
I did not start Extension Permission Monitor because I wanted to build a security product. I started it because my own browser felt messy. I had too many Chrome extensions installed, and the uncomfortable part was not the number. It was the uncertainty. I could recognize some of the icons, but I could not explain what...
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Why Chrome Extension Permissions Are So Hard to Understand
The hardest part of Chrome extension permissions is not that the words are technical. The hardest part is that the words do not map cleanly to what normal people are trying to understand. A user does not really care whether a permission is called , , , , or . They care about something simpler: What can this extension...
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How to Audit Your Chrome Extensions in 5 Minutes
Most people do not need a complicated browser security routine. They need a small habit they will actually repeat. That is how I think about auditing Chrome extensions now. Not as a dramatic security cleanup. Not as a paranoid weekend project. Just five minutes every now and then to ask a simple question: What...
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I Had 22 Chrome Extensions Installed. I Had No Idea What Half of Them Could Do.
I did not realize how many Chrome extensions I had installed until I opened the extensions page and counted them one by one. Twenty two. That number bothered me more than I expected. Not because twenty two extensions is automatically dangerous. Some of them were tools I used every day. Password manager. Screenshot...
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