Hive - Extension Detector

Detect enabled Chrome extensions to ensure a fair and secure Hive Smart Interviews assessment.

🧩 **Extension Detector — Secure Your Hive Smart Interviews Environment** Hive Smart Interviews ensures **fair** and **distraction-free** coding assessments. However, certain Chrome extensions can interfere with the coding interface, provide shortcuts, or affect exam integrity. **✨ Extension Detector** was built exclusively for **Hive Smart Interviews** to prevent such issues. It helps candidates and admins identify which Chrome extensions are currently enabled and alerts them if any might compromise the assessment environment. --- ### 🚀 Key Features for Hive Users - 🔍 **Detect Enabled Extensions:** Lists all active Chrome extensions while using Hive Smart Interviews. - ⚡ **Real-Time Monitoring:** Instantly detects when an extension is enabled or disabled during an assessment session. - 🛡️ **Maintain Exam Integrity:** Ensures only approved tools are active, keeping the coding environment fair for all candidates. --- ### ⚙️ How It Works When a candidate accesses **Hive Smart Interviews**, the extension locally checks enabled extensions using Chrome’s **management API**. It securely communicates the status only with the Hive platform. ✅ No personal data, browsing history, or sensitive information is collected. --- ### 🧠 Why Hive Needs It Online coding assessments require a **controlled environment** to ensure fairness. Extension Detector empowers candidates to **self-check** their browser setup and helps admins **maintain exam integrity** during Hive assessment sessions. --- ### 🔐 Permissions Explained - 🧩 **management:** To detect which extensions are enabled. - 🪟 **tabs:** To communicate with Hive assessment tabs and refresh them if necessary. - 🌐 **Host permission:** Required to run only on Hive Smart Interviews pages (`https://hive.smartinterviews.in`) for secure communication. --- 📜 **Privacy Policy:** https://sites.google.com/smartinterviews.in/extension-detector-privacy/home