# BalancedView

> Analyze news articles for potential bias and provide alternative viewpoints

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/balancedview](https://chrome-stats.com/d/balancedview)

## Overview

- **ID:** `balancedview`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Fun88
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-09-01
- **First published:** 2024-08-31
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-01-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/balancedview/)

## Description

Analyzes news articles for potential bias, sentiment, and fact-checks the content.
Provides alternative viewpoints for the analyzed article.
Offers a user-friendly interface for viewing analysis results.
Implements a summarization feature to provide a quick overview of the article.
Tracks reading history to help users revisit previously analyzed articles.
Provides a popup interface to access options and view reading history.
Offers an options page to manage API keys for different services.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 is not longer available in the store

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