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The Pinterest extension can function without accessing all of your Chrome data - here's how

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ρ³ Pinterest Permissions Proof-of-concept

The Pinterest extension can function without accessing all of your Chrome data - here's how.

Motivation

The Pinterest Save Button Chrome extension allows users to collect images by quickly adding them to their Boards. Unfortunately, the extension requires some overbearing permissions. Namely, the ability to access all browsing data. Pinterest Save Button add dialog and permissions

Goal

The intent of this project is to demonstrate how the functionality of the Pinterest Save Button can be implemented without any special permissions.

Criteria

  • Achieve the goal requiring as few permissions as possible
  • Do so as succinctly as possible while clearly expressing the intent

Strategy

Take advantage of the activeTab permission to display no warning message during installation.

Results

The results of this project will be summarized in a future commit.

Demo

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The Pinterest extension can function without accessing all of your Chrome data - here's how

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