Is Bardeen: Automate Browser Apps with AI safe?
Most notable: access data on all websites, access data on all websites, full browsing history.
What it can access (15 permissions)
Read from the extension’s own manifest. These describe what it is technically able to do — not what it does do.
- Access data on all websitescritical
Read and change the content of every site you visit, including banking and email.
- Access data on all websitescritical
Read and change the content of every site you visit, including banking and email.
- Full browsing historyhigh
Read and delete the full record of sites you have visited.
- Inject scriptsmedium
Run its own code inside pages you visit.
- Tab informationmedium
See the URL and title of every tab you have open.
- Current tab on clicklow
Access the current tab only when you explicitly click the extension.
- Scheduled taskslow
Run code on a timer.
- bookmarkslow
No documented elevated capability.
- Right-click menulow
Add entries to the browser's context menu.
- Notificationslow
Show desktop notifications.
- Local storagelow
Store its own settings and data locally.
- ttslow
No documented elevated capability.
- Unlimited local storagelow
Store data locally without the normal quota.
- webNavigationlow
No documented elevated capability.
- offscreenlow
No documented elevated capability.
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Claim this extensionData read from the Chrome Web Store listing on 2026-09-16. Install counts are the store’s own rounded buckets. Permission descriptions are derived from the extension’s published manifest. This page describes capabilities, and is not an accusation of misuse.