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We audited every Chrome Web Store listing's data-safety disclosures: 69,039 extensions collect data, 3,839 collect financial data, 994 health data.
Extensions change permissions, bump versions, and vanish. Here's how to monitor all 314,807 Chrome Web Store listings as a change feed, not a one-time export.
Themes are a quarter of the Chrome Web Store. One publisher, Wallsflow, is behind 10,362 of the 75,170 themes — 13.8% of every theme in the store.
We measured all 314,807 Chrome Web Store listings: 288,044 have under 1,000 users and 67,934 have none at all. Just 1,776 clear 100,000 installs.
Of the 1,776 Chrome extensions with 100,000+ users, 885 request access to every site you open — and 394 of those also declare they collect data.
We measured 39,241 AI Chrome extensions. The AI labs' own — Claude, ChatGPT — rate far below third-party aggregators like Sider and Monica. The data.
Search Chrome extensions, compare adoption and ratings, track history, and monitor permission or privacy changes with a structured dataset API.