# PlainSight

> Send and receive messages hidden in plain sight.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `plainsight`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David Menear
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-08-12
- **First published:** 2020-08-05
- **Size:** 70 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/plainsight/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/dmenear/plain-sight](https://github.com/dmenear/plain-sight)

## Description

PlainSight is a Firefox add-on that enables users to secretly communicate by hiding messages in plain sight using a password. It's a convenient and discreet method of communication, but it's not suitable for storing sensitive data.

## Rankings

- #100,206 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardRead`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/plainsight)