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What is it about third-party extensions you don't like? I know many extensions have full access to any site you visit, but I specified LinkedIn for mine, so wh
by mitchas 9y ago
What is it about third-party extensions you don't like?
I know many extensions have full access to any site you visit, but I specified LinkedIn for mine, so when you install it, you are warned that it can access all your data on LinkedIn, but no other sites.
- solotronics 9y agonothing about yours in particular but recently there have been attacks via 3rd party extensions in general https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-extension-malware/ https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-extension-malware/ edit: tried your extension out and I really liked it! thanks for sharing
- ertand 9y agoYup, as solotronics said. On Chrome extensions, minor bugs (or minor bugs in the libraries you depend on) might end up having far worse consequences. Read/write access to only linkedin.com can still leak a decent amount of unwanted information in case there's an exploit.
- mitchas 9y agoHmm. I'll have to read into that more. I don't use any external libraries, I wrote all of the code in the extension, and the only external requests made outside of the extension are to Google Fonts, so I wonder if it'd be possible to infect this extension.