cookiesWhat the cookies permission means for a Chrome extension
Live Chrome Web Store extensions that declare cookies: 14 063, which is 5% of the 270 859 whose permissions we have read. Counted after our catalog pass of 2026-10-10.
What it lets an extension do
Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
Reaches your browsing data or every site
Permissions in this group reach your browsing data or every site. Plenty of honest extensions need one; check that what the extension is for explains it.
What Chrome says when you add one
We know of no install warning Chrome shows for this permission on its own. Chrome may still warn about the site access an extension declares alongside it.
How common it is in each category
| Category | Share of extensions | Extensions |
|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle · Shopping | 9% | 825 of 8 708 |
| Lifestyle · Social | 9% | 677 of 7 160 |
| Productivity · Developer | 7% | 1 944 of 28 348 |
| Make Chrome Yours · Privacy | 7% | 358 of 5 449 |
| Productivity · Workflow | 6% | 2 868 of 45 721 |
| Productivity · Communication | 5% | 390 of 7 120 |
| Productivity · Tools | 5% | 5 582 of 106 510 |
| Lifestyle · Travel | 4% | 34 of 855 |
| Productivity · Education | 4% | 452 of 11 516 |
| Lifestyle · Entertainment | 3% | 222 of 6 363 |
| Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility | 3% | 216 of 8 075 |
| Lifestyle · Household | 2% | 12 of 493 |
| Make Chrome Yours · Functionality | 2% | 179 of 11 127 |
| Lifestyle · Games | 2% | 105 of 6 897 |
| Lifestyle · News | 1% | 22 of 1 631 |
| Lifestyle · Fun | 1% | 107 of 8 489 |
| Lifestyle · Well Being | 1% | 32 of 2 878 |
| Lifestyle · Art | 1% | 38 of 3 519 |
Counted over the live extensions of each 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.
Widely installed extensions that ask for it
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Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools 343.0M users
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迅雷下载支持 80.0M users
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Grammarly: AI Writing Assistant and Grammar Checker App 41.0M users
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AdGuard AdBlocker 17.0M users
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Free VPN for Chrome - VPN Proxy VeePN 15.0M users
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Honey: Automated Coupons & Rewards 13.0M users
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Tampermonkey 12.0M users
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MetaMask 12.0M users
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Clever 12.0M users
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Online Security 11.0M users
Each links to what that extension can access and how its permissions have changed.
How to check your own extensions
- Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and find the extension in the list.
- Open its details. The Permissions section lists what Chrome granted it, in Chrome's own words.
- 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.
- To uninstall it, choose Remove on the same page.
Other permissions
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Figures come from the public Chrome Web Store, which our own crawler reads up to 2 times a day. We do not install or audit extensions and publish no contact details for their developers. Catalog pass of .
Where the data comes from: how the catalog is built