# Partisan Gauge

> Determines your 'partisan alignment', based on news sites accessed in your browsing history. The partisan alignment is a score from -5 to +5 on a political spectrum.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `partisan-gauge`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brad Jackson
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.9
- **Last updated:** 2020-05-21
- **First published:** 2020-03-19
- **Size:** 413 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/partisan-gauge/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/partisan-gauge/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/partisan-gauge/privacy/)

## Description

Partisan Gauge is a browser extension developed at the University of Melbourne to examine the political alignments of users based on their previously visited news sites. It provides feedback on the quality of news sites visited and tracks changes in political alignment scores over time.

## Rankings

- #130,828 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `identity`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `history`
- `http://115.146.93.15/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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