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I think this is a great question (privacy concerns.) Chrome instills fear into me when it announces that a plugin can gain access to my data (that's an instant
by idleloops 14y ago
I think this is a great question (privacy concerns.)
Chrome instills fear into me when it announces that a plugin can gain access to my data (that's an instant put off for me.) I still don't actually get just what data a Chrome plugin has access to.
- michaelbuckbee 14y agoPlugins+Extensions are terrifying and awesome simultaneously. When that warning says "all your data on all of your websites" it f'ing means it. Imagine the extension as a person on a computer in a remote location who is looking through every web page that you visit and taking actions on your behalf. Different extensions might: - Look through the content of a page and find things that are likely phone numbers and make them Skype links - Select sections of a page and push their content to a server (ala Clipboard) - Check if you're on a banking site, append an iframe of the site to itself and transfer funds out of your account. It's the web browser equivalent of downloading a program onto your desktop, once it is installed (sandboxing aside) it can do quite a bit.
- idleloops 14y agoThat doesn't sound good at all! I guess they can update themselves automatically. Who vets the plugin ecosystem?