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Re:Tell HN: You.com extension injects tracking beacons acros... by nickphx on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:58AM (#34800602)
The browser didn't mention anything about reading/writing/modifying content of all sites? It's been a minute since I've messed with browser extensions, but I remember the ability to write 'tags' to a site's content was gated behind a permission dialog during "installation".
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Re:Tell HN: You.com extension injects tracking beacons acros... by xu_ituairo on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:24AM (#34800709)
I think the browser telling you what an extension is technically capable of is different to the extension letting you know what it’ll be doing and why.

Installing my adblocking extension the browser told me the app is capable of reading all web pages and editing them, but I assume they aren’t using that capability to track me.

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