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thedevs-network / kutt-extension

🔗✂️ Cross-Browser URL Shortener Extension based on Kutt.it
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[Permission] Access to data for all websites #60

Closed hmnd closed 5 years ago

hmnd commented 5 years ago

Could you please explain why this change is necessary? I have stopped using this extension as a result of this change. Access to data for all websites

abhijithvijayan commented 5 years ago

@hmnd

The latest update enables this extension to use with hosts other than Kutt.it. In order for that to work, the extension has to access all http://*/ and https://*/ hosts to request shortening.

It was set to https://kutt.it/* in the earlier versions.

See this commit and this issue to clarify.

Also, just to be clear, no personal data is collected with this extension. As for the permission, the extension has to have the ability to request to any host, the user sets.

eg: https://uhl.site

vrumger commented 5 years ago

@abhijithvijayan I like the idea of supporting self hosted Kutt but I don't think that requesting this permission is a good idea.

abhijithvijayan commented 5 years ago

@YouTwitFace Literally almost all url shorteners out there, request this permission.

Inspect the manifest json of this

vrumger commented 5 years ago

@abhijithvijayan that still doesn't change my mind.

abhijithvijayan commented 5 years ago

@YouTwitFace The whole idea of Kutt is an open source url shortener for all. I just made the extension to work with the custom host. I even found that some hosts can give response in under a second.

Take uhl.site for instance. Sign up and test it out yourself to see if it was worth it.

abhijithvijayan commented 5 years ago

Closing.