SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN
Comments Owl for Hacker News
Chrome extension·by So It Is Solutions
86
/ 100 SAFETY SCORE
EXCELLENT
Looks clean. No meaningful risks detected in this scan.
Automated analysis of publicly available code — not a professional security audit. It may produce false positives and does not prove an extension is unsafe or safe. Treat it as one signal among many. Disclaimer · Report an issue
How it ranks
Comments Owl for Hacker News's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
56%of extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 409,539 extensions
In Lifestyle
58%of lifestyle extensions carry more risk
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 48,249 lifestyle extensions
Findings
14
median 12Lower is safer
Critical findings
0
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
2
median 1Declared in manifest
Active users
308
median 25vs category median
Findings breakdown
Automated security signal · 14 distinct issues across 6 severities
14
distinct issues
detected
detected
Critical00%
High00%
Needs Review00%
Medium1393%
Low17%
Info00%
Permissions requested
2 permissions declared
No risky permissions
2 permissions requested — none are flagged as risky.
Medium
Add context menu items
Can add custom items to the right-click context menu
Medium
Store local data
Can save data locally in the browser for persistence
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Scan performed by extenshi.io · Aug 15, 2026
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