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by iudqnolq 2311 days ago
Absolutely. If the extension injects JavaScript into the page to examine the email it can run a fetch in the context of that page.

I think the app store should warn that a page can send data to any website if it has permission to modify any page.

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It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure the permissions dialog explicitly calls this out.