Manifest V3 Extension
- By:
- https://ground.news
- Users:
- 40,000
- Rating:
- 4.04 (57)
- Version:
- 3.2.1 Last updated: 2025-03-25
- Creation date:
- 2020-09-06
- Risk:
- Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
- Permissions:
- tabs
- storage
- tabs
- Host permissions:
- https://extension.ground.news/*
- https://production.checkitt.news/api/*
- https://extension.ground.news/*
- Size:
- 517.00KB
- Email:
- fe*****@ground.news
- URLs:
- Website ,Privacy policy
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- 20 hours ago
Ranking
Publisher Change History
2025-01-08: Email was changed from ha*****@ground.news to fe*****@ground.news
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User reviews
Pros
- Helps users recognize bias and factuality in news sources.
- Offers convenient comparison of news stories across different outlets.
- Encourages critical thinking about media consumption.
- Has a dedicated and communicative team providing good customer support.
- Useful for understanding political alignment of websites and diverse news coverage.
Cons
- Extension often fails to work on major news sites like BBC, NYTimes, CNN, Forbes.
- Frequent issues with the extension not activating or showing incorrect messages, like not recognizing valid news articles.
- User interface is sometimes cluttered and information overload.
- Lack of feature to disable extension on specific websites or inclusion/exclusion (blacklist/whitelist) functions.
- Subscription and cancellation processes reported as difficult and sometimes involving rude customer service.
Recent reviews
It just doesn't work, constantly logs you out. Of note, a lot of its legitimacy stats are very out of date, based on 2018 to 2020. A lot, and I mean a lot, has come out, about a lot of things many media outlets flat out mislead the public about, and none of this is taken into consideration by the rating agencies Ground News have partnered with. For instance, MSNBC is listed as highly factual. Now, anyone with an honest heart, knows that it fundamentally not the case. The Epoch Times? Mixed or low factual, why? Because their health magazine section discussed Chinese medicine ointments for skin treatments, oh and, you know the whole Vaccine thing they were right about 4 years before everyone else, what being a newspaper with an interest in China and all. But it's 2025, and we're just letting it go apparently, but for things like Ground News to work, they've got to hold themselves accountable by having ethical partnerships with ethical organisations, and organisations that can put their hand on their heart and claim MSNBC is highly factual news are not those organisations.
by
Co*****, 2025-05-10
It doesn't work on every website or in every language but it's still a wonderful extension.
by
Mu*****, 2025-03-13
Absolutely love Ground News and what they're doing, I'm so glad they exist to advertise to people who might not regularly even consider what they're reading may be biased.
Keep up the great work 🥲
by
Jo*****, 2025-02-24
Extension safety
Risk impact
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Ground News - Bias Checker requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
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Ground News - Bias Checker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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