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Does putting an analytics piece inside of a Chrome extension allow the creator to see which website a user is currently viewing when using the extension? Or are the analytics limited to the extension itself? For example, a simple extension that makes the background-color of the current page red, if there are analytics on that extension could the developer potentialy know which site the user is on?

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Simple anonymized analytics, like clicking of a button. Basically the analytics without which nowadays apps/websites are considered incomplete.

Chrome doesnt allow extensions to get that data unless the extension asks for daring permissions like "Access your data on all websites".

Currently the app asks for no such permission. There were some features I planned to integrate like user right-click a text and click on 'send to Sticky note', but now terrified whether to even ask for such permissions.

AFAIK - Yes. The developer could potentially run the analytics in the background html and from the content scripts track events sending the url as parameters.

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