Comment on Can the permissions given to a Firefox addon be finetuned more than the GUI allows?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Usually those required permissions are directly derived from the APIs the extension uses, so you probably could but not without losing some functionality. For example, if you completely blocked network requests uBlock itself makes it would be unable to fetch the blocklists. I think auditing the code and disabling autoupdates if you’re concerned about the dev’s trustworthiness would be a better approach, but afaik it has a spotless track record
gnufuu@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I could have used a better example than uBlock. Think of an addon that lets you change your browser’s locale. Those hardly ever need to be updated, yet I can’t find a way to keep them offline.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Or not really about updates or checking for them. Any browser addon that is supposed to interact with all websites needs that permission. It is basically a filter for when you visit a website, if an addon is allowed to “see” the page/traffic. Even for changing the locale, this is needed.