Re:Show HN: Chrome extension to blur personal data before sc...
by gnicholas on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:25AM
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> For all other pages, extension uses activetab permission which allows to modify content of the current tab.
Very interesting that the permissions request on install doesn't mention this. I mean, it should be obvious that something that takes screenshots needs to know what it's screenshotting, but the bits about text-scrambling (which I only learned of via the HN discussion) reveal that it needs more access than just the image of the page.
Very interesting that the permissions request on install doesn't mention this. I mean, it should be obvious that something that takes screenshots needs to know what it's screenshotting, but the bits about text-scrambling (which I only learned of via the HN discussion) reveal that it needs more access than just the image of the page.