Hive - Extension Detector

🧩 **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.

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### 🚀 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.

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### ⚙️ 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.

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### 🧠 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.

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### 🔐 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.

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📜 **Privacy Policy:**
https://sites.google.com/smartinterviews.in/extension-detector-privacy/home