Secret Google APIs in Chrome
Some news of an extension in Chrome that gives any Google domain access to special APIs is going around. Secret is perhaps somewhat clickbaity as they were part of the repo for the last decade but most including myself were unaware of them.
Credit to DM_Ronin@mstdn.social for the screenshot
Simon Willison’s Weblog breaks it down well. In short it gives basic telemetry and trouble shooting data.
There was a Hacker News discussion as well. I would give my thoughts but the conversation I stole a screenshot of expresses them perfectly.
A short post but thought it was worth sharing. No major scandal but another example of Google and their monopoly on the web.
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