little-rat

I still use the Little Rat extension, it shows a little notification when an extension does a network request, and lets you see quickly what type and where. It can also block requests (doesn't seem to work all the time in Brave now, even with the flag on), activate and deactivate extensions: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat There's also this site that I've used from time to time to audit extensions quickly: https://chrome-stats.com/

I built little-rat (chrome extension) a couple of years ago that can track and block traffic from other extensions: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

Thanks a lot! Just wanted to say that for me, no Chromium install is complete without Little Rat there. Very handy, thanks again for that. For those who want to check it out, it's an extension to monitor/block network access of other extensions, it also lets you turn them on/off from the same screen: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

Someone created a similar extension for chrome called little rat[0], it needs to be installed in developer mode bec chrome doesn’t allow extensions to interact with each normally. [0] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat?tab=readme-ov-file

There is a chrome extension called Little Rat that records/notifies every singld url a chrome extension talks to. https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

This reminds of little rat chrome extension https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat which tracks network requests by other extensions. This sound feature should be added to that or unblock as an extension

Great idea! We need a lot more visibility into what extensions are doing. I made little-rat [1] last year, to detect network calls coming from other extensions. Love to see more tools like yours! [1] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

Just use Little Rat to block unwanted call-homes, telemetry and stuff like that https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

There is nothing fishy going on. You can see the source it is small and simple. And because it is not on store, what you see is what you get when you load it. Background.js file is the one that sends chat completion request to openai. EDIT: There is https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat to tell you which URLs your installed extensions are hitting.

It says 1.0 in the extensions manager, but it was downloaded fresh this evening by clicking on the 'ZIP' link in your readme.md on here: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/tree/main edit, aha, downloaded the .zip manually rather than via the link, and it has the other icons now, I guess the 'ZIP' link pointing at archive/refs/main results in an older version

Nifty - but please do this more carefully: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/main/popup.js#L36 I do not want to have to worry about whether another extension can inject xss into yours with a crafted request/id/name.

Since it uses `declarativeNetRequest.onRuleMatchedDebug`[0], which is supposed to be debug-only, I doubt it'll be allowed in the chrome webstore. 0: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/f0b9b6be39af9fe7f4...

The key code is here: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/f0b9b6be39af9fe7f4... chrome.declarativeNetRequest.onRuleMatchedDebug.addListener((e) => { if (e.request.initiator?.startsWith('chrome-extension://')) { Given that the extension is using a "Debug" API, it seems unlikely that the Chrome Web Store will approve. "Only available for unpacked extensions with the declarativeNetRequestFeedback permission as this is intended to be used for debugging purposes only." https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...

Hi HN I needed a way to monitor network calls made by chrome extensions so I made a small extension. You can install it by dropping the zip or crx into the extensions page. It'll be on the chrome store whenever/if it gets through the review. Hopefully it's useful to others. https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat https://twitter.com/dnak0v