Articles tagged "cookies"

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A sparse grid of dots with a few highlighted in orange — a map of declared permissions across 308,000 browser extensions.

Extension permissions by the numbers: what 308,000 browser extensions actually request

I mapped browser extension permissions across 308,210 live listings: 62% claim storage, 7.4% can read every site you visit. Here's what to pause on.

Maxim Kosterin

June 2, 2026

8 min read

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The `cookies` permission explained: what browser extensions can really access in your sessions

The cookies permission lets extensions read, write, and delete cookies — including session tokens. Here's what that means for your accounts and how to check.

Maxim Kosterin

March 6, 2026

8 min read