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Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by mitchas on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:46PM (#16327858)
What is it about third-party extensions you don't like?

I know many extensions have full access to any site you visit, but I specified LinkedIn for mine, so when you install it, you are warned that it can access all your data on LinkedIn, but no other sites.

Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by ertand on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:37PM (#16328633)
Yup, as solotronics said.

On Chrome extensions, minor bugs (or minor bugs in the libraries you depend on) might end up having far worse consequences. Read/write access to only linkedin.com can still leak a decent amount of unwanted information in case there's an exploit.

Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by mitchas on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:56PM (#16329045)
Hmm. I'll have to read into that more.

I don't use any external libraries, I wrote all of the code in the extension, and the only external requests made outside of the extension are to Google Fonts, so I wonder if it'd be possible to infect this extension.

Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by solotronics on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:57PM (#16327932)
nothing about yours in particular but recently there have been attacks via 3rd party extensions in general

https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-extension-malware/

edit: tried your extension out and I really liked it! thanks for sharing