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ebg13 on May 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Our Chrome Extension Is Safe

> Makes you wonder - was there even a problem in the first place?

YES.

> I understand they were using a very broad wildcard for permission on websites they could access

That is a problem.

saurik on May 16, 2020 [–]

But we still don't know if that was the actual reason the app got pulled, as if that were the case it should have been trivial for a computer to notice it was fixed; do you not see how that sucks?

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