Permission Patrol
Your permissions, at a glance.
On-device · No accounts · Chromium 116+
Your permissions, at a glance.
On-device · No accounts · Chromium 116+Permission Patrol lives in the side panel. It scans every page you visit for granted permissions, embedded trackers, and cookies — then gives you a clear, honest picture of what each site can access.
Every page load triggers a real-time scan of browser permissions (camera, mic, location, notifications), third-party iframes, tracking scripts, and cookies.
An A–F privacy score grades each site based on granted permissions, tracker count, and cookie exposure. One glance tells you if something is off.
Auto-decline cookie consent banners, get real-time alerts when permissions change, and track which ad networks follow you across the web.
Built for clarity, not complexity. Permission Patrol shows you what matters and lets you act on it — without needing a security degree.
An A–F letter grade for every site, calculated from granted permissions, active trackers, and cookie count. Understand risk at a glance.
Automatically clicks "Reject All" on cookie consent banners from 18 known consent management platforms. No more banner fatigue.
See every cookie a site has set, classified by purpose: analytics, advertising, functional, or session. Plain-language descriptions explain what each one does.
A cross-site tracker map shows which ad networks and analytics services follow you as you browse. See how many sites each tracker appears on.
Get notified the moment a permission changes — whether you granted camera access or a site's tracker count jumped. No manual refresh needed.
A timestamped log of every permission change across all sites. See when you granted location to a map service or revoked camera from a video app.
Toggle individual permissions (camera, mic, location, cookies, popups, JavaScript) on or off per-site directly from the panel.
Permission Patrol lists its own permissions and explains why each one is needed. We practice what we preach — no hidden access.
Permission Patrol was built with one rule: nothing leaves your browser. No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. The irony of a privacy tool that tracks you is not lost on us.
Every scan result, cookie classification, and tracker sighting is stored in chrome.storage on your device. Nothing is ever sent to any server.
No analytics, no crash reports, no usage tracking. We don't even know how many people use the extension.
No email, no sign-up, no user ID. Install it and it works. Uninstall it and everything is gone.
Read the full Privacy Policy →
Permission Patrol is a Chrome and Edge side-panel extension that shows you every permission a website has, grades its privacy with an A–F score, auto-declines cookie banners, inspects cookies with plain-language explanations, and maps trackers across your browsing — all without sending a single byte of data off your device.
Yes — 100% free, no ads, no paid tiers. Permission Patrol has no backend and no servers, so there's nothing to monetize.
Six core permissions: activeTab (read current tab info), tabs (detect tab changes), contentSettings (read and toggle site permissions), sidePanel (show the panel), storage (save settings and history), and webNavigation (detect page navigations). Two optional permissions — webRequest and cookies — are only requested when you enable specific features.
When enabled, a content script watches for cookie consent banners from 18 known Consent Management Platforms (OneTrust, CookieBot, Quantcast, Didomi, and more). When a banner appears, it automatically clicks the "Reject All" or "Decline" button. It dismisses consent banners — it doesn't block essential cookies that sites need to function.
The Tracker Map aggregates tracker sightings across all the sites you visit. It shows which tracking domains (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Microsoft Ads, etc.) appear most often and lists every site where each tracker was detected. All data is stored locally and can be cleared at any time.
Yes. Each permission row has a toggle that uses Chrome's contentSettings API to change the site-level setting. You can block or allow camera, microphone, location, cookies, popups, and JavaScript per-site without navigating to chrome://settings.
Permission Patrol works on all standard web pages. Browser-internal pages (chrome://, edge://, the Chrome Web Store, and new-tab pages) are protected by the browser and can't be scanned by any extension.
Right-click the extension icon and choose "Remove from Chrome" (or "Remove from Edge"). All stored data — settings, history, tracker sightings — is permanently and completely deleted when the extension is uninstalled.