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PoobahGorg

Today I noticed that Enhanced Steam wasn't working. Chrome automatically disabled it because it requires new permissions.

In its own words:
"It can now:

  • Read and change your data on all steampowered.com sites, steamcommunity.com and store.steampowered.com"

I know that permissions on Chrome addons and Android apps tend to sound a lot more frightening than they actually are. That said, the words "change your data" worried me a tiny bit. Does this just mean that it changes how the web page displays? Or am I actually giving it permission to change things within my account? I'm expecting it to be the former, but the latter would be quite worrisome.

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jashjacob

https://github.com/jshackles/Enhanced_Steam

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HappyCakeday

If you click on the Enhanced Steam add-on, then click the "Credits" tab there are 3 programmers. They may know what is going on.

Jason 'jshackles' Shackles
Ben 'smash.mn' Williams
Dan 'JoiNNN' C.

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PoobahGorg

Thanks! The sourcecode is there on github, I forgot I got it from there. I'm thinking if it did something bad, we'd have heard by now.

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Chenko

Hi! Did you finally allow the new permissions? Have been everything right? I'm waiting too, don't know how to do. Thanks!

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PoobahGorg

I allowed permissions and it worked fine now.

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bitcoin

Jshackles explained everything here.

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PoobahGorg

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Same rights its always had, now Google requires it (domain rights) to be fully spelled out.

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