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It 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 s
by Nadya 10y ago
It 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.