# Dumb Down — Google Messages login helper

> Sends your Google Messages login to your Dumb Down flip phone via QR code. Nothing leaves your computer except to your own phone.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/dumb-down-login](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dumb-down-login)

## Overview

- **ID:** `dumb-down-login`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jack Nugent
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 73
- **Version:** 1.5.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-29
- **First published:** 2026-06-22
- **Size:** 54 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/dumb-down-login/)
- **Website:** [https://dumb.co](https://dumb.co/)

## Description

Google removed QR pairing for Messages-for-web, so linking Google Messages now means signing into your Google account and transferring that session to your phone – this helper does that safely for the dumb phone 2 at <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/33d533b6cf450657224893a3a27390777bc580450db77d9c20bf825c23f8f4fe/http%3A//dumb.co" rel="nofollow">dumb.co</a>.

How it works:
- You sign into Google in a private window.
- The add-on reads that window's login cookies and shows them as a QR code.
- The Dumb Down companion app scans the QR and forwards the login to your phone over an encrypted relay.

Why a private window? Google rotates its session cookie about every 30 minutes and only one holder can rotate it. A login captured from your everyday browser profile would sign your phone out within half an hour; a private window you close afterward keeps your phone linked.

Privacy: the add-on only reads your Google cookies and draws them on screen. It makes no network requests of its own – your login never leaves your computer except when your own phone scans the QR.

## Rankings

- #13,818 — Overall
- #14 — messages
- #23 — message
- #33 — login
- #63 — phone
- #121 — usage

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `cookies`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.google.com/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com
- 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/dumb-down-login)