What is the reason for the browser history permission requirement?

belaviyo / send-to-vlc

A Webextension to send streamble media sources to VLC (VideoLAN) media player

http://add0n.com/send-to-vlc.html

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What is the reason for the browser history permission requirement? #24

Closed norcalli closed 5 years ago

norcalli commented 5 years ago

I noticed the browser history permission was requested, but no explaination was given in the release notes. In the future, if permissions are going to change, it would be appreciated if the release notes mentioned the reasoning.

belaviyo commented 5 years ago

It is used to mark a link as visited when sending it to the external player; see https://github.com/belaviyo/send-to-vlc/issues/15