Chrome asks once, when you install an extension. Then it never asks again. ExtRenew is the follow-up question nobody built: a plain-English, 30-day checkup for what your extensions can actually do, run entirely on your machine.
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ExtRenew lists every other extension you have installed and explains, in plain English, exactly what it can see. Then it's your call: renew it, disable it, or remove it outright.
Scanning installed extensions…
✅ Audit complete. All 5 extensions reviewed.
Every extension lands somewhere on this scale, based on the most access it actually asks for.
Every extension still installed has everything you ever gave it.
Permissions don't expire. They don't get flagged. Nothing in Chrome ever circles back to ask "do you still want this?" That's not an edge case, it's just how it has always worked, which is exactly the problem. ExtRenew is the follow-up question that should have shipped with the browser in the first place.
Not a one-time scan. A cycle that keeps coming back, so nothing gets granted once and forgotten forever.
Every extension, listed with what it can access, in plain English.
Renew it, disable it, or remove it. Nothing happens without you clicking something.
Quietly, in the background. No polling, no phoning home, nothing running in between.
Same question, same honesty. Anything that changed since last time gets flagged first.
→ back to 01, for as long as the extension is installed
ExtRenew reads Chrome's own list of installed extensions and their permissions, using the same built-in APIs any extension manager relies on. It stores your review history locally, on your device, using Chrome's standard storage API.
There are no accounts, no servers, no analytics, and no data of any kind sent anywhere, ever, and none of it is shared with or sold to third parties. Nothing ExtRenew does requires the internet, and nothing it stores ever leaves the device it's installed on.
To delete everything ExtRenew has stored, uninstall it. Chrome automatically clears its local storage the moment you do, there's nothing left behind to separately request or delete.
Questions about this policy: hello@extrenew.com
Every permission Chrome already warns you about, plus a plain-language reason it matters, right there on hover.
From 🙈 Blindfolded to 👑 Total Control, so you know at a glance what you're actually dealing with.
Busy today? Push the check to tomorrow or next week. No daily nagging, no endless popups.
Already turned something off? It gets its own section, not buried among everything still active.