Cookie Lens

Cookie Lens is a privacy-first Chrome extension that translates technical cookie names into plain English.

Highlights

• Local-only analysis: no external API calls
• Plain-English purpose mapping via built-in dictionary
• Category model:
  • Strictly Necessary
  • Functional
  • Analytics
  • Tracking/Marketing
• Privacy Health Score summary
• Search and category filter
• Human-friendly expiry wording
• Confidence indicator for each cookie:
  • High (Dictionary match)
  • Medium (Heuristic match)
  • Low (Unknown cookie)

Load in Chrome

1. Open chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer mode
3. Click Load unpacked
4. Select: cookie-lens/src

Permissions

• cookies: read cookies for current site context
• activeTab, tabs: determine active tab URL for scoped analysis

Privacy

Cookie Lens does not send cookie data to external services. Classification is performed locally in the extension popup.

License

Apache License 2.0