> It just baffles me that people willingly install these extensions that—on the tin!—say that they can "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit

> It just baffles me that people willingly install these extensions that—on the tin!—say that they can "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". It's disappointing you can't have finer grain permissions for Chrome Extensions. What's the alternative though if you can't make it a web service though? A Electron or native app for example would have even more permissions and could read any file on your computer.