Why is the new update asking for access to my browsing history?

[al1gned]

[srid]

chrome.history is nowhere to be found in the source tree (all I could find was the addition of chrome.tabs in 3440649) which leads me to believe that the extension published on the Chrome store corresponds to a source tree not on this repository.

[jiacai2050]

Also wonder why history permission is required for this extension, I can't imagine a scenario where this is required.

[bandit2077]

Bribed by the oligarchy?

[al1gned]

Bribed by the oligarchy?

That's probably the most logical explanation I could think of.

[srid]

Looks like this got addressed in 5.0.0.2

[ghost]

Hey thanks for your concern. The extension has been updated in 5.0.0.2 to remove the "tabs" permission, which caused this issue: 6d16ec5. This was my fault, I thought it was required to update Twitter tabs on install: https://github.com/typefully/minimal-twitter/blob/main/background.js#L8, but turns out it was an unnecessary addition.

This is the standard warning for the "tabs" permission.
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40660649/7948880

More info:

[srid]

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know that about the "tabs" permission.