# Background Clipboard Watcher

> Silently monitors background clipboard access.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/background-clipboard-watcher](https://chrome-stats.com/d/background-clipboard-watcher)

## Overview

- **ID:** `background-clipboard-watcher`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Hamish Haney
- **Category:** appearance
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-11
- **First published:** 2025-11-08
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/background-clipboard-watcher/)

## Description

This extension operates quietly in the background, watching for any attempts to access the clipboard. It silently prevents unauthorized reads and offers a minimal notification when such activity is detected.

## Rankings

- #138,914 — Overall
- #242 — clipboard

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/background-clipboard-watcher)