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You should open-source it anyways, which will help adoption a lot, and ease people past things like this: "* The notice you see about having access to your his

by ekanes 5y ago

You should open-source it anyways, which will help adoption a lot, and ease people past things like this: "* The notice you see about having access to your history and website data is automatically generated because this extension runs on every tab. But it does NOT actually monitor your browsing history or require your personal information to work properly." The world is correctly nervous about extensions that run on every page.

ksarw 5y ago
I am leaning toward open-sourcing it; perhaps HN can help me make the decision ;) Regarding extensions that run on every page, I totally understand the concern. That's why we already built in the option to make it manually run network requests (right click on the extension icon, then click on the options tab). It does make the comment count badge not work though if you choose to do this.
- ksarw 5y ago
  I've thought about it some more, and have decided to open source the extension at 5AM Pacific Time. I'll also post an update on Twitter+LinkedIn It will be accessible at this link: https://github.com/netvyne/ext https://github.com/netvyne/ext Just a heads up, this will be as-is ;) so please excuse the commit messages and disorganization.
goldbattle 5y ago
I agree with this. What happens when I got to my bank with this extension? I would rather have either what another commenter suggested (a bookmark) or be able to see the source. I assume they use the "activeTab" permission to give temporary access to the current tab? From a quick look, it seems to just request access to all pages? I am not sure if chrome really has a elegant way to handle per-website requests (as compared to per-tab). https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2Fdetail%2Fnetvyne-extension%2Fhdmpoglhdchngeiefpiaiilfeicjjfap https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google....
- ksarw 5y ago
  Yeah this is the best configuration we could find. We'll have the full source up later tonight too, so if you have suggestions on what how to improve you can create an issue/PR here once its ready: https://github.com/netvyne/ext https://github.com/netvyne/ext

by ekanes 5y ago

ksarw 5y ago

I am leaning toward open-sourcing it; perhaps HN can help me make the decision ;) Regarding extensions that run on every page, I totally understand the concern. That's why we already built in the option to make it manually run network requests (right click on the extension icon, then click on the options tab). It does make the comment count badge not work though if you choose to do this.

ksarw 5y ago
I've thought about it some more, and have decided to open source the extension at 5AM Pacific Time. I'll also post an update on Twitter+LinkedIn It will be accessible at this link: https://github.com/netvyne/ext https://github.com/netvyne/ext Just a heads up, this will be as-is ;) so please excuse the commit messages and disorganization.

goldbattle 5y ago

I agree with this. What happens when I got to my bank with this extension? I would rather have either what another commenter suggested (a bookmark) or be able to see the source. I assume they use the "activeTab" permission to give temporary access to the current tab? From a quick look, it seems to just request access to all pages? I am not sure if chrome really has a elegant way to handle per-website requests (as compared to per-tab). https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google.com%2Fwebstore%2Fdetail%2Fnetvyne-extension%2Fhdmpoglhdchngeiefpiaiilfeicjjfap https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google....

ksarw 5y ago
Yeah this is the best configuration we could find. We'll have the full source up later tonight too, so if you have suggestions on what how to improve you can create an issue/PR here once its ready: https://github.com/netvyne/ext https://github.com/netvyne/ext