iOrder

Breakdown of required Google Chrome permissions

The Google Chrome permissions mentioned on this page are required by the iOrder extension to function.

Some of these permissions can be quite scary so I have attempted to explain why each one is required. If you doubt these explanations or are simply curious please feel free to take a look at the source code yourself. It is open source after all.

Visible

These permissions are displayed on the extension's page and on the warning message displayed to the user;

  • "Your data on neocotic.com" - This is required to for the inline installations process to update the Install buttons on the homepage once iOrder has been successfully installed.
  • "Your data on store.apple.com" - This is required as iOrder requests your order's page from this website and parses the response to check for any status updates and to extract the tracking link.
  • "Your tabs and browsing activity" - This is required to prevent the Options link in the popup from opening a new tab each time it's clicked.

Further information on these permissions can be found here and here.

Hidden

Users are not informed about these permissions but are required by iOrder;

  • "notifications" - This is required to display notifications to the user (if the associated option is enabled).

Further information on these permissions can be found here.