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How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access
How I Check Whether a Chrome Extension Is Asking for Too Much Access I used to install Chrome extensions the way most people install them: I saw a useful feature, checked a few reviews, clicked install, and moved on. That sounds normal because it is normal. Extensions are supposed to feel lightweight. A screenshot...
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What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension
What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension Publishing my first Chrome extension felt different from pushing a normal web app. With a web app, I can deploy quietly, refresh the page, fix something, deploy again, and pretend the first version never happened. A Chrome extension feels more public. There is a...
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Why Chrome Extension Permissions Are So Hard to Understand
The hardest part of Chrome extension permissions is not that the words are technical. The hardest part is that the words do not map cleanly to what normal people are trying to understand. A user does not really care whether a permission is called , , , , or . They care about something simpler: What can this extension...
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I Had 22 Chrome Extensions Installed. I Had No Idea What Half of Them Could Do.
I did not realize how many Chrome extensions I had installed until I opened the extensions page and counted them one by one. Twenty two. That number bothered me more than I expected. Not because twenty two extensions is automatically dangerous. Some of them were tools I used every day. Password manager. Screenshot...
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