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I want to install this addon, but it asks for permission to view and modify data on all sites. Both for security and loading javascript on every page I visit r

I want to install this addon, but it asks for permission to view and modify data on all sites. Both for security and loading javascript on every page I visit reasons, I wish there was a version that only bound to medium.com. I know I could compile one from source but that's a hassle.

dredmorbius 8y ago
An alternative is ... to install onlyone extension that tracks allyour activity everywhere (Stylus), and write or apply CSS stylesheets to fix annoyances. The set I use. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoiroQn https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoir... Firefox's Reader mode also works well. (It's among the targets I've restyled.)
- pmontra 8y ago
  You can also use uBlock to hide parts of a page. It's much easier to use on a phone. Pick the area on screen, possibly select a parent or children in the list on the popup, preview, confirm and it's gone.
  - dredmorbius 8y ago
    Yep, and I do. Multiple modes, defence in depth.
gok2 8y ago
agreed
thebaer 8y ago
Then it wouldn't work on Medium-powered sites like hackernoon.com. There is an open, up-for-grabs issue to fix that permission [0] if anyone wants to help us solve this! In the meantime, there isn't anything crazy you have to do to make it only work on medium.com -- just clone the repo to your machine, change this one line to "https://medium.com/*" https://medium.com/*" [1], and then load the extension in your browser. [0] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15 https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15 [1] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/manifest.json#L27 https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/manifest.json#L2...
- thecatspaw 8y ago
  is there no way to ask for these permissions after having the plugin installed allready? I seem to remember that the Reddit enhancement suite does that
  - mplewis 8y ago
    That's the feature they want someone to write in that GitHub issue.
- hoistbypetard 8y ago
  The proposed fix is a good idea. Reddit Enhancement Suite uses optional permissions that way[1] and the prompts the first time it wants to act on one of the optional sites are not irritating at all. [1]https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/chrome/manifest.json https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blo...
amelius 8y ago
Would Firefox "containers" solve this problem?

dredmorbius 8y ago

An alternative is ... to install onlyone extension that tracks allyour activity everywhere (Stylus), and write or apply CSS stylesheets to fix annoyances. The set I use. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoiroQn https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hFzKwoir... Firefox's Reader mode also works well. (It's among the targets I've restyled.)

pmontra 8y ago
You can also use uBlock to hide parts of a page. It's much easier to use on a phone. Pick the area on screen, possibly select a parent or children in the list on the popup, preview, confirm and it's gone.
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  Yep, and I do. Multiple modes, defence in depth.

gok2 8y ago

agreed

thebaer 8y ago

Then it wouldn't work on Medium-powered sites like hackernoon.com. There is an open, up-for-grabs issue to fix that permission [0] if anyone wants to help us solve this! In the meantime, there isn't anything crazy you have to do to make it only work on medium.com -- just clone the repo to your machine, change this one line to "https://medium.com/*" https://medium.com/*" [1], and then load the extension in your browser. [0] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15 https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15 [1] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/manifest.json#L27 https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/manifest.json#L2...

thecatspaw 8y ago
is there no way to ask for these permissions after having the plugin installed allready? I seem to remember that the Reddit enhancement suite does that
- mplewis 8y ago
  That's the feature they want someone to write in that GitHub issue.
hoistbypetard 8y ago
The proposed fix is a good idea. Reddit Enhancement Suite uses optional permissions that way[1] and the prompts the first time it wants to act on one of the optional sites are not irritating at all. [1]https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/master/chrome/manifest.json https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blo...

amelius 8y ago

Would Firefox "containers" solve this problem?