You may have allowed a website to use your microphone for a meeting or your location for a local search, then forgotten about it. A quick permission review helps you decide which sites still need that access.
1. Start in Chrome’s settings
On a computer, open Chrome’s menu and choose Settings → Privacy and security → Site settings. Select the permission you want to review, such as camera, microphone, or location, and inspect the site entries shown.
Google’s site-permission guide explains both general controls and exceptions for individual websites. Review one permission type at a time so the list remains manageable.
2. Match each permission to a real use
Ask what you use the website for and when you last needed that feature. A regular meeting service may need a microphone; a site you visited once may no longer need an exception.
Read the full site address before making a decision. A familiar word somewhere in an address is not enough to identify the service. If an entry is unfamiliar, investigate it without granting additional access just to see what happens.
3. Change the individual site’s permission
For a trusted site you already have open, use the site-information control beside the address, select Site settings, and adjust the relevant permission. Changes save automatically. Where offered, Allow this time limits a new permission to the current visit rather than future visits too.
Avoid changing every permission at once. After updating an entry, reload the relevant page if prompted and test the feature you care about. Keep useful access limited to the site that needs it.
4. Separate permission problems from device problems
If a meeting website still cannot use the camera or microphone, review its selected device and the computer’s own access controls. Browser permission is only one part of the setup. Google’s camera and microphone troubleshooting guide covers these additional checks.
Our Windows microphone guide helps determine whether Windows receives your voice at all.
What this review does not cover
Website permissions, browser extensions, and connected Google-account apps are separate areas. Changing one does not automatically clean up the others. For unwanted alerts, follow our Chrome notification guide. For browser add-ons, use our extension-permission review.
A useful end result is a short list of permissions you recognize and can explain—not a browser where every helpful feature has stopped working.
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