Is GoLess: Browser Automation and Web Scraping safe?
Most notable: control network proxy, chrome debugger, access data on all websites.
This extension has not been updated in 31 months. Unmaintained extensions keep whatever permissions they were granted, and security fixes stop arriving.
What it can access (10 permissions)
Read from the extension’s own manifest. These describe what it is technically able to do — not what it does do.
- Control network proxycritical
Route your entire browser traffic through servers of its choosing.
- Chrome debuggercritical
Attach to the browser's debugging protocol, which can read and modify anything on any page, including passwords as you type them.
- Access data on all websitescritical
Read and change the content of every site you visit, including banking and email.
- Read and write cookieshigh
Read session cookies, which in some cases are enough to access an account without the password.
- Tab informationmedium
See the URL and title of every tab you have open.
- Inject scriptsmedium
Run its own code inside pages you visit.
- Scheduled taskslow
Run code on a timer.
- Local storagelow
Store its own settings and data locally.
- webNavigationlow
No documented elevated capability.
- Unlimited local storagelow
Store data locally without the normal quota.
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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.