FWIW, this message scared the crap out of me. First, I did not get it when I installed a couple of other extensions (gmail/greader), nor have I ever seen such a message w/FF so it was completely new territory. Second, conditioning users to simply click through a message like this sets an extremely bad precedent. After a few of these it'd be a lot easier to get tricked into installing really nasty spyware.
It'd be nice to have a link that sent you to some more detailed explanation/warning about what's going on and to be sure you trust the extension provider. But that, unfortunately, is a bit of a problem: I don't trust most of these providers! Finally, I'm curious to know if this same kind of data access is available to FF extensions? Or, does Chrome handle this in some different way? CM On Nov 27, 12:29 am, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I understand. > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd be a little wary of adding a long laundry list of privileges. I > > suspect users will have a finite willingness to absorb information > > from this dialog. > > > Adam > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FWIW, I plan to experiment with this dialog a bit more. I don't think > >> it will address pdknsk's concern, but I was going to make it more of a > >> list, like: > > >> This extension will have access to: > > >> * Your browsing history > >> * Yourprivatedataon: google.com, yahoo.com, ... (or "several > >> websites", or "all websites") > >> * Your location on earth > >> ...etc... > > >> The problem is that the current dialog does not scale to new kinds or > >> permissions very well. > > >> - a > > >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I don't understand your question. Do you have other text that you > >>> think is more accurate? The current statement sounds pretty accurate > >>> to me. > > >>> Adam > > >>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:22 PM, pdknsk <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> "This extension will have access to your browsing history andprivate > >>>>dataonhttp://domain.com."; > > >>>> IMO that statement is more of a fact than a warning, like "we have > >>>> detected that this extension will access your browsing history and > >>>>privatedata" when it is more likely that the extension is completely > >>>> harmless and just does a XHR to get somedata. > > >>> -- > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Chromium-extensions" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected]. > >>> For more options, visit this group > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
