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Show HN: Gmelius, Towards a Better Gmail
- sidchilling 15y agoTried installing. It gives "Invalid Manifest file". I am on Chrome 17.0.963.46
- lpolovets 15y agoThis seems nice, but the permissions are scary. Giving access to "your data on *.google.com and mail.google.com" to get a slightly better UI is a hard proposition to accept. I wish Chrome had more fine-grained permissions, like "you give this extension permission to modify the stylesheet on xyz.com, but not to access your data"."
- xpressyoo 15y agoYes, you're right. A better granularity on the permission settings would be a nice feature to add in the webstore. Just to comment on this point, "Your tabs and browsing activity" comes from the fact that the extension modifies the style and UI of Gmail within your browser and so needs to know whether Gmail is open in your browser (i.e. tabs) to apply those changes, nothing more. To make things clear, Gmelius will never access, read, store, or transmit your personal data.
- simonbrown 15y agoTo inject a content script, you just need permission to access that site.
- devicenull 15y agoAnd if you're injecting a script, you can read all the data off that page.
- simonbrown 15y agoBut you don't need "tabs" aka "Your tabs and browsing activity".
- bnr 15y agoI doubt that would make things a lot safer. With permission to modify only the stylesheet, one could already change the login form to phish your password.
- simonbrown 15y agoHow? I agree that something like that would be risky (you could style the delete button to say "reply"), but I'm not sure how you could do that. Stylesheets can't change a form's action.
- bnr 15y agoI was thinking it would be possible by crafting pseudo elements to a replacement login form, but after reading some more that actually does not seem possible. Maybe one could make the email composition form look like the login form under some conditions. On the other hand, reddit allows people to upload stylesheets for their subreddits, they only re-host the images in them and that seems to have worked out well.
- zackzackzack 15y agoIs this even allowed? Honestly, I am curious how this got approved. I really like it, but I worry that Google is going to see this and pull it from the website with a "Nope nope nope."
- pinaceae 15y agonow this is interesting - it removes google ads. how long until google blocks this? it defeats the purpose of their free gmail service after all...
- mithaler 15y agoI doubt they will, seeing as how they've never blocked this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjoc...
- dfc 15y agoAdblock has been in the chrome store forever and Adblock blocks google ads across the interweb and not just on gmail. Do you really think that ad impressions are the driving force behind gmail?
- Groxx 15y agoIf you ask the question in the light of "how many people use this, compared to active Gmail users?" (11,616 vs ~ 200 million [1] = .006%), and then ask "how much is it worth to block this?" (probably a very small number), I personally come up with "a very very long time, if ever" for your "how long until..." question. [1]: http://www.quora.com/Gmail/How-many-total-active-Gmail-users-are-there http://www.quora.com/Gmail/How-many-total-active-Gmail-users...
- drewfrank 15y agoGoogle makes money by displaying ads, and they do so in a fairly unobtrusive way. Why are some people so determined not to provide anything in return to the company that offers them a valuable service?
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- twistedskew 15y agoTowards a better google reader chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdnglondfcmoiakaolanlglfchdhkdgc https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdnglondfcmoiakaol...
- captn3m0 15y agoMy GMail inbox looks quite similar, and I just use custom blocking using Adblock Plus (Right click on a div and block).