Articles tagged "data-story"

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A quiet stack of thin hairline layers with one middle layer in soft orange watercolor — data an extension keeps, silently, at rest.

The `storage` permission explained: what browser extensions keep, and where it actually lives

The storage permission is the most-requested thing extensions ask for — 62% claim it, with no install warning. Here's what it keeps, where, and how to check.

Maxim Kosterin

July 10, 2026

7 min read

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

privacy browser-extensions permissions

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