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Re:Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charitie... by dmnd on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:22PM (#6714514)
Is it really necessary for this extension to "access your data on all websites" and "access your tabs and browsing activity"? That's asking a lot.

Shouldn't it only need to access amazon.com? E.g. once it detects my browser is on amazon.com, just redirect to smile.amazon.com. What else does it need to do?

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Re:Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charitie... by jhaimson on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:47PM (#6714656)
Good point, I accidentally left in these excess permissions from when I was first building it. Removing them now and submitting an update, thanks for letting me know!
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Re:Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charitie... by atwebb on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:24PM (#6714526)
It probably waits until you hit a site it that's in in their store catalog and redirects with the proper CJ/LS/Amazon link. I wrote something similar for Firefox a few years ago.
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Re:Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charitie... by shwinnabego on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:35PM (#6714586)
Pretty sure chrome requires all extensions to state that. It's not that the application needs to, but in the event that it does, chrome wants a catch-all phrase.
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Re:Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to donate to charitie... by dmnd on Monday November 11, 2013 @05:38PM (#6714609)
That's not true. Look at the first example in the docs: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings.h...
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