Privacy and permissions

Understand the privacy and permission model

Learn why JSON Lens uses explicit user actions and avoids broad browser permissions.

Updated2026-05-30

LevelBeginner

Read4 min

1Step 1

Start from an explicit action

JSON Lens begins from a popup click, selected-text action, pasted payload, or local file. It does not watch network traffic in the background.

2Step 2

storage saves preferences, contextMenus supports selected text actions, and activeTab plus scripting render the current page only after you click.

3Step 3

The extension does not request webRequest, cookies, history, tabs, debugger, or persistent host access such as all_urls.

Render a raw JSON response in the same tab after an explicit popup action.

Paste copied payloads locally, inspect parse errors, and open escaped JSON strings without uploading content.

Contact Birdor support or submit a ticket draft with the workflow, browser, and sanitized details we need to reproduce the issue.