Yup, until the author uploads a new, more 'clever' version and chrome auto-updates your browser, without you knowing it (since permissions didn't change).
If you want to avoid facebook completely, why not just deactivate your account, or completely log out and clear all cookies, then never log back in on your machine? I thought that point of this plugin was to let you use facebook normally without worrying that another site would post on your wall.
Because if google doesn't something that people find out about, there will be a firestorm. If this guy does... will it rise in the headlines anywhere? I doubt it.
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Yup, until the author uploads a new, more 'clever' version and chrome auto-updates your browser, without you knowing it (since permissions didn't change).
You can copy the source code and make your own plugin from it ;)
If you want to shut down facebook on your computer without a plugin just put those domains in your /etc/hosts:
I thought the goal of this plugin is to neutralize Facebook Connect (i.e. facebook on 3rd party websites), not to disable Facebook altogether?
Indeed, but my view is that if you don't trust Facebook, you don't trust Facebook.
Not quite. That won't block www.facebook.com or static.ak.fbcdn.com
Yeah, [unfortunately?] wildcards don't work here, so you can't do something like *.facebook.com.
You could either list out all the domains or use something like dnsmasq or another DNS proxy that lets you define more sophisticated rules.
Edit: the advantages of the /etc/hosts approach are it's simple, and it works without additional software.
If you want to avoid facebook completely, why not just deactivate your account, or completely log out and clear all cookies, then never log back in on your machine? I thought that point of this plugin was to let you use facebook normally without worrying that another site would post on your wall.
It looks like we need another plugin which will track the source changes of other plugings and report them.
Who will watch the watchmen?
You already trust Google to not do bad things inside Chrome; why not trust this guy, as well?
Because if google doesn't something that people find out about, there will be a firestorm. If this guy does... will it rise in the headlines anywhere? I doubt it.