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> The other opportunity is the tabs permission. This permission lets extensions see what tabs are open. Pushbullet uses this permission to avoid opening new tabs for websites that are already open when mirrored notifications are clicked. This is a small sacrifice to make to let go of a big permission. Let’s let it go!

No, that "small sacrifice" sounds super annoying! I don't use Pushbullet, but if I did and this got removed in an update, I'd be pissed off! At least leave it behind an optional checkbox.



Thanks for the feedback here. It strikes me as a little crazy I may be infuriating you with a change and never even know if that was something I had to do?

An optional permission seems 100% reasonable.


> It strikes me as a little crazy I may be infuriating you with a change and never even know if that was something I had to do?

Oh, for sure! Just to be clear, I didn't intend my comment as a criticism.

It's nuts that you, as the developer, actually went so far as to remove features in your first pass, and Google still rejected that attempt without additional instruction.




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