Is Readium - Medium Paywall Radar safe?

Clean risk

Readium - Medium Paywall Radar stores Medium article URLs and premium-status checks in local extension storage.

The extension runs on Medium pages and Google search results to identify Medium articles and whether they appear to be member-only. It caches Medium URLs, premium-status results, timestamps, and verification counts in Chrome's local extension storage.

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1Risk

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What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on medium.com

    *://*.medium.com/* and 1 more

  • Read and change your data on www.google.com

    *://www.google.com/*

  • Watch every request your browser makes

    webRequest

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

  • Run hidden pages in the background

    offscreen

Updated 30 September 2026mdfheeonmdihneeaifemhbbmepihmomp