> it's good principle to not have to give this permission. Well consider that when you go to a proxied version of HN, you're essentially giving an opaque serve

> it's good principle to not have to give this permission. Well consider that when you go to a proxied version of HN, you're essentially giving an opaque server "permission" to view all your traffic it sends to HackerNews... but you can't verify what it's doing with that At least this extension states exactly what permissions it needs, and I can inspect it and see what it's doing...