# Are AI browser extensions a security risk?

Often more than the chatbots themselves, because of the permissions they ask for. To summarise pages, rewrite e-mails or fill in forms, an AI extension usually needs to read and change everything on every website you visit, which includes webmail, CRM, banking and internal applications. It then sends page content to its own servers or to an AI provider. Some extensions are well run; others are small projects that change hands, get sold or are updated with tracking or malicious code, and the browser installs the update silently. Practical steps: allow extensions only from a managed list through browser policies, review the permissions and the publisher of each, prefer the AI features of your approved tools over extensions, and remove extensions nobody can justify. A network sensor sees an extension's connections to its servers like any other traffic, but cannot tell which extension made them; the inventory belongs in your browser or endpoint management. From the Pro plan, NetSenX shows which hosts reach which AI services and how much data goes there.

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