Permissions change

[trumbitta]

Hi! 👋

This morning, the extension asked me for a permission update. It now wants permission to read and write all data on all websites.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Would you mind sharing any details on the reason?

[warrenday]

Hey, this permission has always been there, you're being asked to approve permissions again as we added the "debugger" api to detect web-socket traffic for subscriptions.

Anytime a new permission is added all need to be approved again.

[ackmanx]

Hey, this permission has always been there, you're being asked to approve permissions again as we added the "debugger" api to detect web-socket traffic for subscriptions.

Anytime a new permission is added all need to be approved again.

Thanks for the reply. This extension is basically critical to doing my job so I'd hate to lose it 😆

But I am curious, I've never seen it interact with a web page's contents. Why does the extension need the read/write data permission? Does that include network requests?

[warrenday]

I'd also add, the "read and write all your data" is due to the network and webRequest apis; this extension by its nature needs to see all network traffic in order to filter out only the graphql requests.

All the latest changes here are in the main branch, this is exactly what's now deployed to chrome store.