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by ShamelessC 2223 days ago
Makes you wonder - was there even a problem in the first place? Or were they just trying to silently kill this extension but failed due to this going viral?

I understand they were using a very broad wildcard for permission on websites they could access. I'm glad they narrowed that down. But after they did, they still needed this to blow up in order to get an actual response.

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> Makes you wonder - was there even a problem in the first place?

YES.

> I understand they were using a very broad wildcard for permission on websites they could access

That is a problem.

But we still don't know if that was the actual reason the app got pulled, as if that were the case it should have been trivial for a computer to notice it was fixed; do you not see how that sucks?