About access privileges

[ghost]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I trust this app, but I don't think it's a good idea to force it to allow access to all websites.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to be able to allow it individually or only for a day, like some other extensions do.

[tyirvine]

In the manifest.json you can see at the bottom it uses the activeTab permission.

This means that access is only granted when the extension is activated. Here's an excerpt from Google's Extension documentation:

The activeTab permission gives an extension temporary access to the currently active tab when the user invokes the extension - for example by clicking its action.

You can view Google's Documentation here!

This is more secure because otherwise the extension would always be activated on all sites or activated on the sites you choose (even if it's not duplicating it could theoretically be doing something still).

You'll notice how active extensions are blue and ones that are not active are just black/white. You'll see the Duplicate Tab extension turn blue when you duplicate a tab and go back to the original and look at the extensions list.

I hope this makes you feel better about the privacy of the app! If you have more concerns please don't hesitate to ask!

I should maybe make this more clear in the app description or the app itself.