Re: [Librefm-discuss] Anomaly - The Libre.fm / GNU FM Chrome Extension

[Mike Sheldon]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 11:13 -0800, Darryl G. Wright wrote:
> There are 2 solutions to this:
>
> 1) I modify the ext to be exclusively a "Libre.fm" scrobbler
> 2) Open it up to be able to access "all domains" essentially asking to
> people accept the security risk.

A third option would be to do both, release one extension purely aimed
at Libre.fm for people who are only interested in using Libre.fm and are
concerned about what the extension may access and a second one which can
access any site for people who run their own servers (and so are likely
to be far more aware of why those permissions are necessary).

Cheers,
 Mike.

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Kuno Woudt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > On 09/02/12 19:43, Darryl G. Wright wrote:
> >>
> >> Ha - that is a very good point and one I hadn't even thought of. I may
> >> have to simply install support for various servers. Are there any
> >> servers other than Libre.fm right now? If not, it might be worth
> >> simply defaulting it to Libre.fm for now and removing the ability to
> >> configure it. Alternatively it is possible to simply open up the
> >> permissions to "all websites" but some people may be uncomfortable
> >> with that.
> >>
> >> Until there's more than one server - it would be easy to simply lock
> >> it down to Libre.fm.
> >
> >
> > Obviously there is more than one server.  Many people run their own
> > copies of gnu fm, so the ability to configure it seems quite important.
> >
> > -- kuno / warp.
> >
>