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Do extension authors have access to the information that's accessed by the extension?

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I'm mostly curious as to how the permission "Access your data for all websites" works. I have a couple of questions:

1 - Do the guys who develop extensions have access to the data processed by the extension or is the data only saved on the local machine?

2 - Does the extension have access to secure pages (HTTPS://)?

I'm mostly curious as to how the permission "Access your data for all websites" works. I have a couple of questions: 1 - Do the guys who develop extensions have access to the data processed by the extension or is the data only saved on the local machine? 2 - Does the extension have access to secure pages (HTTPS://)?

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FredMcD
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That would make it spyware.

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