[x0ner]

This is pretty nifty. Cracking the extension open reveals a fairly basic API you can use to skip the extension. Here's some code to use it.

https://gist.github.com/9b/f5fe434bf9965d673963884b56d93d9a

On the privacy side, I could see concern from those using the extension. When the site is not found in their database, the full HTML of the page appears to be submitted to the servers and processed. This is a bit of what you would expect, but may present some concern for cases where a new site is submitted and PII is sent to WhatRuns servers.

[jijosunny]

Great hack. We will release the API very soon! :)

Privacy side, I'm sure you noticed that we filter out any text content before sending html tags ‘anonymously’ for technology identification.