[unamashana]

Just to be clear, we simply validate your session by requesting the page with your cookie and seeing if we get a logged in page. We never send your info to any third party.

[pvg]

For the purposes of authenticated interactions between HN and the user, you are the third party who now has full access to the user's account. App/extension stores generally take a dim view of/outright prohibit this because of its high abuse potential.

[linkdd]

You can claim whatever you want to claim, we unfortunately have no way to ensure that this is true.

This is a security hazard, period.

While the feature is nice, and I like the design of the notification dropdown, this is a risk I (and probably many) won't take.

[jjeaff]

I see. That makes more sense. I understood from another post that you were also passing it along to another service.