Browser History Permissions

The cluster focuses on reactions to a browser extension or app that requires access to browser history, with users questioning its necessity, complaining about it filling history entries, raising privacy concerns, and suggesting built-in browser history alternatives.

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Sample Comments

technolem Sep 3, 2012 View on HN

Don't most browser history systems support this on their own?

IncreasePosts Aug 11, 2024 View on HN

Browser history does that pretty well currently.

mrdrozdov Jan 19, 2015 View on HN

Why does this extension need to read your browser history?

HeavyStorm Nov 16, 2020 View on HN

OMG everything you do on the site creates an entry in the browser history...

mdwalters Jan 31, 2023 View on HN

i'd use the history function often, i don't like having my recent sites on display, for privacy reasons

analogmind Nov 7, 2014 View on HN

This is great! I'm always switching back and forth between tabs! Thanks! Why does the app wants to read browser history though?

gildur Feb 22, 2012 View on HN

The web history seem to have been off for me by default.

ako Nov 5, 2023 View on HN

Might as well just search your browser history?

machinarium Jan 2, 2012 View on HN

I thought it was for Web History?

asdff May 5, 2021 View on HN

Why? Browser history is useful.