Little Rat - a browser extension for monitoring other extensions

“Little Rat is an open-source extension designed for network traffic monitoring. Easily view, monitor, and block traffic from other Chrome extensions on a per-extension basis.”

I use it myself and I think it’s a very useful extension for everyone who uses more than just few extensions for different purposes and don’t fully trust them that they send no data as the developer promises, this extension can monitor the network and act as a firewall per-extension basis.

Download (Lite Version | Can’t monitor requests, only block): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/little-rat/oiopkpalpilladnibecobcecijffaflf

Source Code and full version (recommended):
https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/

(I’m not affliate with the developer in any way and just wanted to share this)

#privacy #browser #chromium #browserextensions @privacyguides @privacy

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nothing is completely secure, I’d just rather not install an extension at all if I think it’s dodgy rather than trust another third party to monitor it.

    Websites don’t have by default access to the extensions you have installed

    This article implies otherwise, apparently there are multiple different ways to detect installed extensions.

    • Voxel@infosec.exchangeOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      @smeg You basically missread the article and it basically says, what I already mentioned and the extension is completly opensource I even checked the code myself. 🤦‍♂️

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Lol, thanks but “trust me bro” doesn’t count as a security audit