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mengibar10 | 5 years ago

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

I got this message when I tried to add this extension, everybody comfortable with this?

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dheera|5 years ago

Unfortunately Chrome doesn't granularize it any further. Basically all it needs to do is inject some CSS, and in Chrome permission-speak that is covered under the umbrella of "read and change all your data".

The source is however available so you could inspect it for yourself and install from source:

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Reelin|5 years ago

> all it needs to do is inject some CSS

Actually I believe the default mode analyzes the page contents in an attempt to provide a better end result.