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Is no one else concerned about granting this extension a permission to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"? This is a joke extension and n
by guntars 10y ago
Is no one else concerned about granting this extension a permission to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"? This is a joke extension and nothing is stopping the author from selling it to someone who might have more sinister uses for it.
- mrmondo 10y agoI know nothing about this addon at all, but that's how most ad blockers work...?
- Nadya 10y agoIt needs that permission to read the page and perform the text swap. Text swap is change data, the DOM needs to be read. This is a big reason to support open source add-ons (not sure if add-on is, might be since it was forked? No idea.) You can see if they're doing anything malicious on the side.
- Houshalter 10y agoExtensions are so broken. They can update at any time without your knowledge or permission. There is a whole market of selling extensions to malware companies so they can put malicious code in an update. But besides that, most the extensions I use have serious bugs. I'd be willing to fix them, but there is no ability to do that. Chrome makes it difficult to view the code and there is no ability to edit it or copy it. Let alone submit pull requests to the author, unless they happen to have put the code on github also.
- eridius 10y agoI'm not sure how this addon could possibly work without that permission. After all, that's literally the point of the addon, to read the data on the websites you visit, find instances of Millenials, and then modify the data so it says Snake People instead.
- guntars 10y agoI understand how DOM and extension permissions work. What I don't understand is how 22k people thought giving access to every single site that they visit (banking, facebook, email) to some person that they don't know anything about and have no reason to trust, was a good idea. It's mind boggling.