search

probablyraging / hide-youtube-shorts

Hide YouTube Shorts videos effortlessly with this powerful browser extension
GNU General Public License v3.0
100 stars 10 forks source link

Explain why this extension needs access to all hosts #30

Closed MrVoltz closed 1 year ago

MrVoltz commented 1 year ago

Hi, I've been using your extension for a long time, but one day I saw the new requirement for access to all hosts and tabs. Is this permission really necessary for this extension to work?

https://github.com/ProbablyRaging/hide-youtube-shorts/blame/111044383cccc22517f71a8386eb8aa0ea2bf367/public/manifest.json#L13

probablyraging commented 1 year ago

Thanks for reaching out. This question has already been answered in #24

I've changed the way I declare hosts, instead of declaring just the previous youtube domains, I've opted to delcare <all_urls> in order for the recent changes to work correctly without the intrusive reads browsing history warning. The changes in question are the use of insertCSS() and executeScript() methods.

If you want to manually limit which sites the extension can access;

  • Go to chrome://extensions (or manage extensions)
  • Select Details on the extension
  • Under Site access you can allow the extension to only work on specific sites. Make sure it works on www.youtube.com and m.youtube.com if you use HYS on mobile browser.