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This extension requests the following permissions:

- "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"

- "Read and change your browsing history"

That's a lot of power to grant to a third party, especially on a work machine where some of that data you're looking at may belong to your users.

I don't disagree, but I also don't know how you would build an extension like that without those permissions.

How many applications are running on your work machine outside the browser, with no warnings or significant[0] limitations?

I just assume every piece of software I touch is collecting egregious amounts of data, whether chrome forces them to disclose it or not.