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0 pointskennywinker5mo ago0 comments

It’s been a while since i mucked around with browser extensions, but i assume they don’t have network access by default. Surely there is an extension with page read access and without network access, no?

Edit: this looks pretty harmless https://github.com/the-code-rider/dark-theme-extension/blob/...

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ezfe5mo ago

Browser extensions that modify webpages are just javascript code injected in the page; They can definitely access the internet.

kennywinkerOP5mo ago

I don’t think that’s an accurate description of browser extensions. Content scripts work that way, and many browser extensions include content scripts… but not all browser extensions use content scripts.

Anyway, a quick readthru of the code of the extension i linked shows it does use content scripts, but also it doesn’t do any network access.

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