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    • chopchip
      chopchip last edited by

      Some add-ons such as the "SoundCloud Music Downloader" and the "YTGrabber Youtube Downloader" send your data to an external website. On the YTGrabber addon screenshot you can even see which domain on the screenshot.

      Nowhere on the addons.opera.com page are you warned that your data (possibly the entire file?) is sent to an external website which I can tell is logging everything.

      Is this acceptable practise for an Opera add-on? Maybe it's okay. I was just wondering...

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Nowhere on the addons.opera.com page are you warned that your data (possibly the entire file?) is sent to an external website which I can tell is logging everything.

        Have you checked the extension's permissions?

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        • shwetankdixit
          shwetankdixit last edited by

          As mentioned above, warning of this is already mentioned in the permissions. Please check the "permissions" category, both on the addons page as well as well as the extensions management page in the browser itself.

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