I would find use for products like this but I'm emphatically not enabling a chrome extension unless I've built up significant trust with the company providing it.
I doesn't, so this is more of a parlor trick thsm a practical way to police extensions.
Here is how to set up a separate user profile
On a serious note, I understand your point and realise how new extensions can be dangerous. However, we have a very good team and is trying to solve all the concerns we had with our counterparts.
I hope you'll give us the benefit of doubt! :)
Just add a "insert url here" box and do it on your server.
I implicitly distrust anyone who insists on running code on my PC that they could run elsewhere.
Especially.. code they can remotely update
Also, our counterparts got a majority of their traction from browser extensions which made it our obvious priority (even though it wasn't the easiest of options).
We know 15k is not a lot (comment was pun intended), but it looks like a good start :)
I dont know much about extension development - can a finer permission like - reading browser url is not sufficient to achieve functionality ? or better - a button in extension options to read only current url ?
How do you defend yourself of not selling users data ?
Having said above - compared to extension wappalyzer (which I had) this gives so much more information!! Really cool.
To address your concern with the privacy, WhatRuns do not collect or log any visitor information – including IP address, location etc. We receive anonymous website data and match with our database to display the results. Hope this clarifies.
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