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Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?
by pan69 14y ago
Add to Chrome:
- Access your data on all websites
- Access your tabs and browsing activity
Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?
- OGinparadise 14y agoYeah, right. I'm an idiot? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt... :)
- pan69 14y agoBut that doesn't apply to you, right?
- mschuster91 14y agoJust about every other extension does that, too, I've noticed. Is this maybe the finest granularity Chrome's API offers?
- nolliesnom 14y agoAlso, why does it need to be a Chrome extension? What happened to non-extension web sites?
- Nux 14y agoOptimised for "Internet Explorer 4+"!
- martinced 14y agoIs this something that all Chrome extensions ask for or only some? I tried to install AdBlock Plus in Chromium and it asked the same question...
- icelancer 14y agoHow is AdBlock supposed to block ads on webpages in your tabs without access to them?
- Ensorceled 14y agoMagic? Some of these complaints are idiotic. "Why does my RSS reader need access to the webpage to add the RSS feed for that webpage?"
- tempestn 14y agoWhat if you just want to use it as a reader and are happy with pasting in feed urls manually?
- Too 14y agoThis is the problem with the permission systems on most newer platforms. It's either all or nothing; Run or don't run. If i find a good app for android where only a minimal feature requires some privacy intruding permission i can't install it at all even though i never want to use that feature. Same on Windows, either it's admin or it's not, there is no middle ground. Most installers ask for full super mega admin permission just to get write permisson in %programfiles%, what if i don't even want to install it there. I think .NET and Java programs can be run until they encounter permission requirements and then prompt but i have rarely seen this feature used. Obviously it's a usability tradeoff and the programmers of the app would also have to handle the permission rejection gracefully while running but i don't think that's too much to ask for.
- tempestn 14y agoNot sure about .NET, but you have to prompt at load for Java. Your app can continue to run in a degraded manner if permissions are not granted however. Anyway, this is why it's a shame Feedly doesn't offer a non-extension version. One would hope it's something they have planned. Offer the extension for those who want the additional features and are ok with the permissions, and the web app for the rest (and for the convenience of access anywhere, cross-platform).
- Ensorceled 14y agoThat’s a different, and very valid, complaint. I agree with you that that feature should exist.
- dm2 14y agoAlso no ability to use the RSS reader website without installing an app or extension? What?? No thanks Feedly, I'll pass.
- vonuebelgarten 14y agoThis answer the question about how do they make money. I think there is a lot of buyers for the information they grab with this. I stick with newsbeuter. No web-based readers for me.
- hamax 14y agoI'm not associated with feedly or their user but I'm guessing they need those permissions for getting the rss feed url from the web page and for detecting the current active tab. Probably to display an appropriate icon. It does sound scary but it's really hard to do anything without those permissions.
- Ramp_ 14y agoIndeed, it is to do with the granularity of the Chrome extension permissions. More info & discussion can be found at the item posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381944
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoAlso it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this. Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.
- icelancer 14y agoWas very excited to try Newsblur. It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended. Oh well. Time to move on.
- guptaneil 14y agoWhat's wrong with paying for a service that you find useful?
- dmxt 14y agoI don't have any method of paying online, well, there is, but it takes too much of effort doing the paperwork in bank that it's not even worth it. I don't live in first world country.
- mkr-hn 14y agoInstall a LAMP/WAMP thing (+ python) and run NewsBlur locally. You could even make a local edition where people can pay you in person.
- frio 14y agoNothing, but currently there's no way to try it before buying, which is a problem.
- jcoder 14y agoIt is free---it's OSS. But you can pay him to host your feeds for you.
- abhinavg 14y agoNewsblur is fully open source. You can host it yourself if you do not want to pay for it.
- donniezazen 14y agoCan anyone say that these extensions make a clear distinction between access and store? As long as they don't store any information about pages I have visited or text I have entered in a browser, I don't see much trouble.
- r4vik 14y agorepack without the most heinous permissions: http://ge.tt/3os1cIb/v/0?c http://ge.tt/3os1cIb/v/0?c it's quite good - shame they ask for those.
- Heliosmaster 14y agoIf you use just the shortcut in the browser, nothing is needed.
- mkr-hn 14y agoFeedly won't load without the extension.
- diminoten 14y agoAnd why in high holy hell do you give a shit?