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Sounds cool, but I simply cannot agree to the privacy implication: Access your data on all websites

Chrome's stupid privacy model for extensions ruins this otherwise cool project for me.

I don't think I've installed any Chrome extensions other than the one for LastPass because of the "access your data on all websites" and even LastPass' made me pretty nervous.

I actually got rid of LastPass because of how poor the Chrome extension is. Between spamming the error console with errors, to injecting terrible HTML/CSS to pages for their little field 'star' icon, to terrible/broken notifications for innocuous things. (The yellow toolbar icon turning red could mean any number of things, from 'duplicate passwords detected' to 'please log into lastpass'.)

Yeah I swore off extensions after a simple "browser resize" extension started inserting affiliate links into Google searches.

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