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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail... by lanternfish on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:30PM (#40371298)
Stealing the authentication is arguably way more invasive than this strategy.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail... by saurik on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:15PM (#40371828)
I mean, we can argue lots of things, I guess ;P, but an extension already has access to that authentication token, and pretending otherwise is a bit... "performative"? The expectation I have with an extension--as someone who used to manage an entire ecosystem of such extensions of native software for a decade--is that it is a true extension of the application that it is extending, similar to if we had the original source code to patch.