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"This extension can access: Your data on all websites. Your browsing history" Standard, but still.
by AndrewWarner 15y ago
"This extension can access: Your data on all websites. Your browsing history"
Standard, but still.
- eli 15y agoIt apparently needs to modify links on pages that link to WSJ. You can expect the source easily enough by installing it and navigating to something like ~/.google/chrome/Extensions
- ianferrel 15y agoI ran into this complaint as feedback from a user for a Chrome extension I'm developing that did something similar (inspected links for a certain kind of content, then modified the page in question). I could add a whitelist, but since it's implemented in my own extension, it doesn't solve the trust problem. The fact that you can examine the source of extensions doesn't help much. I'd love for there to be a built-into-chrome per-extension whitelist and blacklist, so that users could specify exactly which pages they give my extension permission to run on. That way they could easily use my extension on only the domains they want, and ensure that I'm not reading their webmail or scraping their bank account website or anything malicious.