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A comment on Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape.

Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by npace12 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:50AM (#43857016)
I built little-rat (chrome extension) a couple of years ago that can track and block traffic from other extensions:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

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Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by binarymax on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:39AM (#43858293)
Wow thanks for building this! Any idea the effort it would take for someone to port this to Firefox?
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Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by npace12 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:41AM (#43859214)
it's not possible in firefox, that traffic is not visible (at least as of the last time I tried 1.5 years ago)
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Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by binarymax on Friday May 02, 2025 @10:13AM (#43870045)
Thanks for the info. That's unfortunate, but I can somewhat understand why FF takes that approach.
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Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by euazOn on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:16AM (#43857289)
Hey, thanks for that, Anon Kode, Anon Codex and other projects, very cool!
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Re:Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sand... by npace12 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:28AM (#43857387)
also check out the claude-mcp extension, very much related to this post :)
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