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Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by seanwilson on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:34AM (#18122623)
Does that cover the functionality of most popular extensions though? When there's an API that matches up with the purpose of the extension, it's more straightforward. I would have thought the popularity of those particular example extensions is what partially drove the creation of those APIs as well.
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Re:Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default by Ajedi32 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:04PM (#18122891)
The APIs I mentioned in my previous comment don't exist yet. My point is that Google is going to need to _build_ APIs to fulfill all of the most common use cases (including those ones) in order to succeed in their goal of making extension permissions more fine-grained.

So yes, the functionality of most popular extensions will be covered by the new APIs, because Google will designing the new APIs with those popular extensions in mind.

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