little-rat VS DivMagic

Great idea! We need a lot more visibility into what extensions are doing. I made little-rat [1] last year, to detect network calls coming from other extensions. Love to see more tools like yours!

[1] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

It says 1.0 in the extensions manager, but it was downloaded fresh this evening by clicking on the 'ZIP' link in your readme.md on here:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/tree/main

2: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

I recently installed the Little Rat chrome extension, which I found here on HackerNews.

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

And what I found is that the Midnight Lizard chrome extension is monitoring my browsing-- sending home screenshots.

You can see examples here: https://ibb.co/JQvgt3p

Apparently my browsing data is being ingested by a company called "Mark Monitor Inc." (based on WhoIs search for the domain the data is sent to -- https://www.whois.com/whois/ytimg.com )

Nifty - but please do this more carefully:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/main/popup.js#L36

I do not want to have to worry about whether another extension can inject xss into yours with a crafted request/id/name.

I'm currently working on an extension as well ([0]) and share the same concerns many have mentioned about extensions here. I'd like to highlight another dimension concerning the Browser APIs ([1]).

Handling the permissions necessary for certain API functionalities and the corresponding warning messages can be somewhat confusing. For instance, our extension uses "chrome.devtools.panels" to open a new window within DevTools. This API doesn't require any permissions by itself. Yet, for messaging across the popup, content, and DevTools windows, we're required to use activeTab and sendMessage APIs. The DevTools window operates in its unique context, almost like a tab within another tab. For example, updating the URL in the active tab doesn't directly update the DevTools window but triggers an event.

Messaging across these different contexts requires the "https://*/*" host permission, without which Chrome and Firefox won't send the messages between these isolated windows.

We made this permission optional, the DevTools Panel is activated only upon receiving explicit user consent. However, the permission prompt's messaging is something like "This extension requires access to all your data," which sounds very alarming. We don't access any data nor that we want to, but requiring that permission is mandatory since the message APIs won't work without them.

This is just one example of the many undocumented complexities within Chrome's documentation. Similar pitfalls exist with message exchanges between the background service and content scripts. Sometimes you don't know why your API call doesn't work even though you think you have the required permission and asking for more permissions show very alarming messages to users.

I think that a more granular permission approach, made specific to API functionalities rather than broad permissions that cover a list of APIs, would significantly help user experience. For example, requesting permission for the "sendMessage API" with a clear explanation would be far more informative for users than the general "All host https:///" permissions.

There's also the issue of building for different browser. The same browser API calls can have different permissions requirement on Chrome and Firefox which makes the development process more difficult and more confusing for users since the same extension requires different permissions on different browsers.

[0] https://divmagic.com

You can see more demo videos here: https://divmagic.com

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