Is MCP Link safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it does not collect or use your data.

The developer also certifies that your data is not sold to third parties outside approved uses, not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core function, and not used to decide creditworthiness or lending.

The listing links to a privacy policy.

This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

What Chrome asks you to allow

When you add it, Chrome asks you to allow it to:

• Read and change all your data on all websites
• Block content on any page
• Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices
• Read and change your bookmarks
• Display notifications
• Manage your downloads
• Read data you copy and paste
• Modify data you copy and paste

Derived from the manifest by Chrome's documented rules; the dialog's exact wording depends on your Chrome version and language. Chrome asks again if an update requests more.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. What access to every site means

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• Read what you have copied clipboardRead
• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
• Attach to pages the way developer tools do debugger
• Read and change your browsing history history
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs

Worth knowing

• Read and change your bookmarks bookmarks
• Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
• Manage your downloads downloads
• Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting

Routine for an extension

• Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Put data on your clipboard clipboardWrite
• Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
• Declares downloads.shelf
• Tell whether you are away from the computer idle
• Show you notifications notifications
• Run work in a hidden page offscreen
• Open a panel beside the page sidePanel
• Store data in your browser storage
• Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage
• Declares userScripts
• Declares windows

Pages it runs its code on

It runs its own code on every page you open: the manifest declares a content script for all sites.

• <all_urls> every site

A content script is code the extension injects into pages matching these patterns. On those pages it can read and change what you see, whether or not a host permission is listed above.

What it may ask for later

Not granted when you add it: Chrome asks you the moment the extension requests one of these, and you can refuse.

• Block or redirect requests on the sites it can access declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
• See when you navigate between pages webNavigation

Sites that can connect to it

Web pages matching these patterns can open a messaging channel to it: 6 site patterns.

• https://aurafriday.com/* only aurafriday.com
• https://*.aurafriday.com/* aurafriday.com and all its subdomains
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/* only raw.githubusercontent.com

Declared as externally connectable in the manifest: a page on these sites can exchange messages with the extension, for example to tell it you have signed in. It does not give the page access to your browser.

How usual this is for its category

In Make Chrome Yours · Functionality, 12% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to every site.

The typical extension there declares 2 browser permissions; this one declares 22 browser permissions.

• Read what you have copied (clipboardRead): 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access (cookies): 2% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Attach to pages the way developer tools do (debugger): under 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Read and change your browsing history (history): 2% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 19% of extensions in this category ask for it.

Counted over the live extensions of the same category after our latest full pass of the store. A share is context, not a verdict: what is normal depends on what the extension is for.

Who uses it and how it is kept up

224 users

• Not updated in the store for over a year: the last update was on 2025-08-12.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Trader The publisher has declared itself a trader under EU rules.

Has it asked for more over time?

This is the question a permission list on its own cannot answer. An extension that shipped narrow and widened later is a different proposition from one that always asked for the same thing.

The permissions this extension requests have not changed since we started watching it.

Who publishes it

Aura Friday. This listing has been in the store since 2025-08-12 and was last updated on 2025-08-12.

Similar extensions that ask for less

Listings close to this one in what they say they do, which declare less reach. Less reach is not a verdict on either: compare what each needs for the job.

1. Browpilot — Browser MCP for AI Agents No site access · 7 permissions 4 users
2. webai-hands Access to specific sites only · 2 permissions, 2 site patterns 56 users
3. webai-claw Access to specific sites only · 3 permissions, 2 site patterns 8 users

How to check or remove it in Chrome

1. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and find the extension in the list.
2. Open its details. The site access setting shows where it can run; set it to run only on click and it reaches a page only after you press its icon.
3. To uninstall it, choose Remove on the same page.

Questions people ask

What can MCP Link access?

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. It declares 22 browser permissions.

What data does MCP Link collect?

The developer declares that it does not collect or use your data. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has MCP Link asked for more permissions over time?

The permissions this extension requests have not changed since we started watching it.

Does MCP Link publish a privacy policy?

Yes, the store listing links to a privacy policy.