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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by holoduke on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:18AM (#23561315)
why would you want to have an extension able to do network calls anyway? my opinion extensions should not be allowed to do so.
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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by inglor on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:35AM (#23561420)
Some reasons:

- Ad blocking - Reporting analytics to home base for product feedback - Mocking network requests to make certain pages load faster. - Performance analytics for the page's network (like the devtools).

Please remember that some extensions are not free, we companies like Microsoft paying a substantial amount of money for the extension we develop (Testim Editor) for example.

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