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You could make it so the ability to access the network is a permission you have to grant to extensions. Got a shady extension that can't access the internet? Wh
by Buttons840 5y ago
You could make it so the ability to access the network is a permission you have to grant to extensions. Got a shady extension that can't access the internet? Who cares.
Same thing would work very well on Android. Got a shady app that can't access the internet? Who cares. Of course, Google trembles at the idea of being able to run apps without a constant connection to an advertising network.
- dave5104 5y agoIsn't the point here, though, that the shady people reach out to try and buy control of non-shady extensions? How would you know whether or not your previously non-shady extension is now shady?
- Buttons840 5y agoIf the extension cannot access the network to send data anywhere, what's the worse that could happen in that scenerio? Obviously some extensions have good reason to use the network, and there's no easy solution there. Some extensions change a color them on a page and that's it, I wish those could be denied internet access.
- TazeTSchnitzel 5y agoThat would be a misleading permission if the extension has full DOM access because it could be easily circumvented.