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QuantumNomad_yesterday at 4:24 PM1 replyview on HN

If you have rogue browser extensions installed, the browser extension can surely read the values that got filled into the login page without having to redirect to another site.


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 4:31 PM

Not necessarily, a user could have accepted a permission request for some (legit) redirect extension that never asked for content permission, then when the rogue actor takes over, they want to compromise users and not change the already accepted permissions.

Concretely, I think for redirect browser extension users I'd use "webRequest" permission, while for in page access you'd need a content-script for specific pages, so in practice they differ in what the extension gets access to.