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If it is implemented in an extension, would it require the "Allow access to all of the web sites I visit" permission?

I'm always a bit apprehensive to enable those sort of extensions.

Wait someone to implement it then extract source or implement it yourself, but rather than going through the store, add the code you inspected/wrote to the browser by enabling "Developer mode" in the Extensions (chrome://extensions/) then clicking "Load unpacked extension".

This would be a very simple piece of code so getting no updates is actually better for security in this case IMHO.

Chrome now disables it unless it's in the app store:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2811969?hl=en

EDIT: And prompts you to disable it at startup if it's unpacked.

Well, yes, having a popup[1] on startup can be less or more annoying than submitting the thing to the Chrome store yourself depending on how often you restart your browser.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/qX8bNcl.png

That fucking popup is the thing that finally drove me to drop Chrome and go back to Firefox on my home PC. Of course, now Mozilla is starting to go all in on extension signing too, so the joke's on me.

Waterfox aims to get rid of some of these annoyances: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/.

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