Hello Stack Overflow Team, I am hoping you can help.
The Google Chrome webstore as of 3/1/2020 is rejecting all my extensions that have activeTab permissions specifically <all_urls> requests. Below is the email I get AFTER my extensions are reviewed.
Your item did not comply with the following section of our Program Policies:
"User Data Privacy"
Your product violates the "Use of Permissions" section of the policy, which requires that you:
- Request access to the narrowest permissions necessary to implement your product’s features or services.
- If more than one permission could be used to implement a feature, you must request those with the least access to data or functionality.
- Don't attempt to "future proof" your product by requesting a permission that might benefit services or features that have not yet been implemented.
This is a HUGE problem because not only are all our recent apps being rejected, but so are the updates to our existing apps that are using the EXACT same permission set.
Our extensions connects business phone systems to Chrome and one of the features we offer is click to call. In order for click to call to work we need <all_urls> permissions so we can find phone number and make them clickable. Below is a sample of our code.
What changes do I need to make in order for Google Chrome to STOP rejecting our extensions?
{
"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
"name": "abc extension",
"description": "abc company click to call",
"short_name": "abc click to call",
"version": "0.00.01",
"manifest_version": 2,
"permissions": [
"storage",
"notifications",
"tabs",
"contextMenus",
"<all_urls>"
],
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": {
"19": "images/icon.png"
}
},
"content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com; object-src 'self'",
"default_locale": "en",
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches":["<all_urls>"],
"css": [ "css/content.css" ],
"js": ["js/jquery.min.js","js/content.js"],
"run_at": "document_end"
}
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["js/jquery.min.js","js/background.js"]
},
"web_accessible_resources":["images/*.png","html/login.html","html/dashboard.html"],
"icons": {
"16": "images/icon.png",
"48": "images/icon.png"
}