Extension Trust Monitor

About

Discover and manage suspicious browser extensions with a single click!

Many extensions seem harmless, but during updates they can secretly gain access to phishing capabilities or unnecessary permissions ("privilege escalation"). Extension Trust Monitor serves as an in-browser security guard, continuously watching for risky activities.

🛡️ Key Features:
Continuous Monitoring: Watches every installed extension and detects critical changes in permissions.

Understandable Risk Analysis (Risk Engine): Evaluates extensions on a scale from 0 to 100, and explains in plain language WHAT the danger of the requested permissions is.

Audit Log: You can look back at when an extension was updated and when it requested new permissions, and then download the entire history in a JSON file.

Content Protection (Watch Mode): Provides protection against "Clickjacking" and disguised intruders on highlighted pages (Optional).

Settings & Exceptions: Tweak the sensitivity or whitelist trusted extensions to fit your workflow perfectly.

Dark Mode Support: The modern user interface automatically adapts to your system's dark theme.

🔒 Privacy-First
This extension *DOES NOT SEND DATA TO ANY SERVER*. All data – from profiling to logging – lives exclusively on your own computer. No telemetry.

Why does it require the `management` permission?
The Extension uses Chrome's *management API* (and the `management` manifest permission) to log installed applications (checking versions and permissions), in order to detect if a third-party application is maliciously trying to change its settings. The list of installed applications is never uploaded to any server.

Warning (Limitations):
*Extension Trust Monitor* audits Manifest-based permissions, thus performing well in most common cases, but it does not replace traditional anti-virus software that inspects executable code in memory.