Is Fly Fish 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 does not link 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
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes
• Read data you copy and paste
• Modify data you copy and paste
• Read your browsing history
• Manage your downloads
• Communicate with cooperating native applications

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
• See, enable and disable your other extensions management
• Talk to an application installed on your computer nativeMessaging
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
• Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest

Worth knowing

• Manage your downloads downloads
• Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
• See when you navigate between pages webNavigation

Routine for an extension

• Put data on your clipboard clipboardWrite

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.

• http://*/* every site
• https://*/* every site
• ftp://*/*

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.

How usual this is for its category

In Productivity · Workflow, 19% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to every site.

The typical extension there declares 3 browser permissions; this one declares 11 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): 6% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Attach to pages the way developer tools do (debugger): 2% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See, enable and disable your other extensions (management): 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Talk to an application installed on your computer (nativeMessaging): 2% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 33% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Watch the network requests your browser makes (webRequest): 3% 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

830 users

• Not updated in the store for over a year: the last update was on 2024-11-14.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

The store shows none of its badges on this listing. Most listings carry none.

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

dev, who publishes 2 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2023-02-24 and was last updated on 2024-11-14.

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. airminal Access to specific sites only · 4 permissions, 18 site patterns 5 users
2. Flying Fish Creator Tracking Access to specific sites only · 8 permissions, 8 site patterns 1k users ★ 5.0
3. OpenFill Access to every site · 5 permissions, 1 site pattern 4 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 Fly Fish access?

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. It declares 11 browser permissions.

What data does Fly Fish 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 Fly Fish asked for more permissions over time?

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

Does Fly Fish publish a privacy policy?

No, the store listing does not link to a privacy policy.