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by sidwyn 872 days ago
The "read and change all your data" permission is a huge hurdle for our shopping extension, especially since we only need to identify shopping pages. What I've tried to build trust is to open source our tracking analytics (e.g. https://github.com/Score-Extension/score-extension-analytics...).

Hopefully transparency is one way to overcome this trust barrier.
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dolmen 871 days ago
We have the same issue. We have a browser extension that wants to extract data from given web pages (retailers, like yours), but there is no API to declare "I want to look at the content of this page only if the URL matches this pattern" or "Let me have a look at the URL and I will tell you if I want to look at the page content". It's unfortunately "all the web" or nothing.
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account42 871 days ago
> What I've tried to build trust is to open source our tracking analytics

That's like being upfront about what kind of getaway car you are going to use for the robbery.

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