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alexadam / save-as-ebook

Save a web page/selection as an eBook (.epub format) - a Chrome/Firefox/Opera Web Extension
MIT License
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Rationale for permissions in Firefox #38

Open sanjaymaniam opened 4 years ago

sanjaymaniam commented 4 years ago

First of all, great project! I'd love to use the Firefox extension, but I couldn't get over the number (and magnitude) of permissions requested. Can see why some of these are necessary, but still, "access your data for all websites" seems scary.

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I'm not familiar with building browser extensions, so I apologize in advance. Are all these permissions necessary?

alexadam commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the message! I understand your concerns and if you want to use the extension, download it form github and install it manually. You can easily verify that it doesn't do anything malicious with your data (it doesn't even collect or read any data except for the current web page's content) I've never changed the permissions since the beginning of the project because... it just worked :) and I didn't want to spend time on non-critical stuff. But I will fix this problem in the next release.

sanjaymaniam commented 4 years ago

Sure! I'll try it over the weekend. Thanks again.