AI Overlay for FairExam Proctoring on Mac

FairExam is one of the smaller Indian-built proctoring stacks used for vocational skills tests, recruitment screening, and certification exams across India and parts of Southeast Asia. Like most of the Indian assessment market, it leans on a browser-extension plus optional secure-browser pairing.

Indian proctoring vendors in the FairExam tier share a near-identical technical pattern: a Chromium or Firefox extension that requests tab and screen capture, a webcam stream for face checks, and optional human review on a back-end dashboard. None of these tools install a kernel extension on macOS, because Apple has not allowed third-party kernel extensions in a notarizable build since 2020 and System Extensions cannot intercept frame buffers either. That means FairExam, like its peers, reads what the browser hands it, and the browser reads what macOS hands the browser.

Most Indian browser-extension proctors offer both modes. Whichever is selected, the underlying capture goes through the same macOS API, and the flagged overlay window is excluded.

No. Snapshots are pulled from the same frame buffer the OS already filtered.

macOS does not expose a list of privacy-flagged windows to third-party apps.

Yes, the browser extension installs on Safari and Chrome on macOS. Fracture behaves the same whichever browser the candidate uses.