# Shade

> A privacy shade for your tabs. Use this extension to quickly mask the contents of your tab, especially if you are screensharing.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `privacy-shade`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Praneet Loke
- **Category:** privacy-security,tabs
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Version:** 23.8.7.1754
- **Last updated:** 2023-08-07
- **First published:** 2020-09-27
- **Size:** 78 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-shade/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/praneetloke/shade-browser-extension](https://github.com/praneetloke/shade-browser-extension)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-shade/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-shade/privacy/)

## Description

Shade is a Firefox add-on that allows users to quickly mask the contents of their tabs, providing privacy while screensharing or collaborating with others.

## Rankings

- #50,183 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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/privacy-shade)