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Violentmonkey

Chrome extension by violentmonkey · Productivity · Workflow

  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 1 000 000 users, one of the largest listings in the store.

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

What the developer says, and 2 screenshots

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Users
1 000 000
Rating
4.6 (747 ratings)
Users, last 9 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
2.48.0
Updated in the store
2026-08-18
Published
2015-12-27
Manifest
V3
Browser access
14 permissions, 1 site pattern

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 01.09
1M · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-011M
  2. 2026-09-021M
  3. 2026-09-071M
  4. 2026-09-091M
Rating
unchanged since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.62 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews747rating4.62
  2. 2026-09-02reviews746rating4.62
  3. 2026-09-07reviews747rating4.62
  4. 2026-09-09reviews747rating4.62
Users
unchanged since 01.09
1M · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-011M
  2. 2026-09-021M
  3. 2026-09-071M
  4. 2026-09-091M
Rating
unchanged since 01.09
reviewsrating 4.62 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews747rating4.62
  2. 2026-09-02reviews746rating4.62
  3. 2026-09-07reviews747rating4.62
  4. 2026-09-09reviews747rating4.62

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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
  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest
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  • Block or redirect requests on the sites it can access declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
  • Sign you in with a Google account identity
  • See when you navigate between pages webNavigation
  • Schedule work to run later alarms
  • Put data on your clipboard clipboardWrite
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
  • Show you notifications notifications
  • Run work in a hidden page offscreen
  • Store data in your browser storage
  • Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage
  • Declares userScripts

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

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

The publisher

violentmonkey publishes 2 listings we track, 1.0M users between them. Listed website: violentmonkey.github.io.

  1. Violentmonkey BETA violentmonkey · Productivity · Workflow · published 2020-11-25 30k users ★ 4.3

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  2. Tampermonkey Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 12.0M users ★ 4.7
  3. ScriptVault Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 131 users ★ 3.5
  4. Tampermonkey BETA Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 700k users ★ 4.8
  5. Scriptmonkey (beta) Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 14 users

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