Wayback Machine

Name: Wayback Machine
Rating: 4.3 (340 reviews)
Author: Internet Archive

Chrome extension by Internet Archive · Productivity · Tools

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A Chrome extension in Productivity · Tools with 300 000 users, a widely installed extension. Audience over the last 30 days: unchanged.

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

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Users: 300 000
Rating: 4.3 (340 ratings)
Users, last 30 days: Unchanged (the store rounds this count to 100 000, so it moves only between steps)
Rating, last 30 days: +0.07 in 30 days
Version: 3.4.8
Updated in the store: 2026-03-16
Published: 2016-12-23
Manifest: V3
Browser access: 7 permissions, 4 site patterns

How it has moved

Last 30 daysLast 90 days

Users

unchanged since 02.10

300k-400k · 5 readings

2026-10-04400k
2026-10-08400k
2026-10-10400k
2026-10-14400k
2026-11-01300k

Rating

+0.07 since 02.10

reviewsrating 4.26-4.33 · 5 readings

2026-10-04reviews337rating4.26
2026-10-08reviews338rating4.26
2026-10-10reviews339rating4.26
2026-10-14reviews339rating4.33
2026-11-01reviews340rating4.33

Users

unchanged since 01.09

300k-400k · 8 readings

2026-09-01300k
2026-09-13300k
2026-09-25300k
2026-10-04400k
2026-10-08400k
2026-10-10400k
2026-10-14400k
2026-11-01300k

Rating

+0.08 since 01.09

reviewsrating 4.25-4.33 · 8 readings

2026-09-01reviews337rating4.25
2026-09-13reviews336rating4.26
2026-09-25reviews337rating4.26
2026-10-04reviews337rating4.26
2026-10-08reviews338rating4.26
2026-10-10reviews339rating4.26
2026-10-14reviews339rating4.33
2026-11-01reviews340rating4.33

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing up to 2 times a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest
Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting

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Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
Show you notifications notifications
Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

Internet Archive.

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