Is Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok safe to install?
Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok asks for 12 browser permissions and 2 site patterns. We do not audit code and we do not judge intent; what we can show is what the listing declares and whether that has changed while we have been watching.
The facts we can check
No score. A single number would compress incomparable things and imply we had weighed them: an ad blocker needs every page and a theme needs nothing, and one figure would be wrong about both.
- Site access
- Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.
- Browser permissions
- 12 permissions
- Privacy policy
- Published in the store listing
- Manifest version
- V3, the current extension platform
- Publisher record
- The store shows this publisher its good record badge
- Rated by
- 114k people, average 4.9
What it can reach
Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.
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Read and change cookies on the sites it can access
cookies -
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs -
Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance
declarativeNetRequest -
Run its own code on the pages it can access
scripting -
Act on the current tab, but only after you click it
activeTab -
Schedule work to run later
alarms -
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus -
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
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.
Versions we have seen
- Version 5.32.6
- Version 5.32.4
Who publishes it
ChatGPT Sidebar, who publishes 3 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2023-02-23 and was last updated on 2026-09-09.
We read the public store listing once a day and keep what it declared. We do not install the extension, do not audit its code, do not judge its intent and publish no contact details for its developer. Last read on 2026-09-09.
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