Not entirely. Chrome has a permissions system for extensions: an extension needs to declare any sensitive or intrusive APIs it wants to use in the manifest file

Not entirely. Chrome has a permissions system for extensions: an extension needs to declare any sensitive or intrusive APIs it wants to use in the manifest file. Some permissions are even displayed to the user before the extension is installed. https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/manifest.html#permissions https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/manifest.html#perm... https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/permission_warnings.html https://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/permission_warning...