june07/NiM

Request less permissions

eight04 opened this issue · 2 comments

eight04 commented

I was rebuilding the Chrome profile and noticed that NiM was disabled because of new permissions:
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Not sure why the browser didn't complain about it before. IMO if you really want to save users' email, you should make it optional and allow users to opt-out.

Another question is about the host permission *://*/*. Why the extension has to request it for all URLs?

june07 commented

There is a different version in the web store that you may like to use instead. I wrote a blog post about it: http://blog.june07.com/foff/.

eight04 commented

Telling people not to update doesn't really solve the problem. If you don't like the option, I suggest creating a fork without analytics/user tracking, then you can keep both versions on CWS and up-to-date.