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I've just looked into this, it seems Chrome displays that because of the "tabs" permission: > "Technically this permission allows observing the history via chr
by sjdz 5y ago
I've just looked into this, it seems Chrome displays that because of the "tabs" permission:
> "Technically this permission allows observing the history via chrome.tabs.onUpdated, but not read the previously existing history, so the phrasing is not entirely correct, strictly speaking."
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64063754/chrome-extension-tabs-permissions-shows-read-your-browsing-history https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64063754/chrome-extensio...
To be clear, the extension doesn't access your browsing history at all. The "tabs" permission is just used to find Wikipedia tabs and enable/disable the new design when using the toggle from the browser popup.
The permissions requested (in the manifest.json file) are:
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"storage",
"*://*.wikipedia.org/*"
]
I will change that to "activeTab" in the next update which should fix it.
- tonymet 5y agothanks for responding here and reducing permissions.
- lucb1e 5y agoNote that you could also make it a bookmarklet which requires no permissions and only accesses the current tab when the user clicks it. Would be nice for trying out how it looks, given how little it changes I was expecting this would be a little bookmarklet and was a bit disappointed I had to add an extension to my browser for trying the look.
- mmahemoff 5y agoA bookmarklet would have to be clicked every time you open a new wikipedia page. I think it would be more productive to just fix the main permission issue (can view entire browsing history - author says in a comment they'll be fixing it). Chrome also lets you keep the extension inactive - you can easily activate it on-demand from the toolbar. If you do that on a minimal-permission extension, you have the equivalent of a bookmarklet.