Why is the new update asking for access to my browsing history?

[civiks]

[srid]

chrome.history is nowhere to be found in the source tree (all I could find was the addition of chrome.tabs in 3440649) which leads me to believe that the extension published on the Chrome store corresponds to a source tree not on this repository.

[jiacai2050]

Also wonder why history permission is required for this extension, I can't imagine a scenario where this is required.

[bandit2077]

Bribed by the oligarchy?

[civiks]

Bribed by the oligarchy?

That's probably the most logical explanation I could think of.

[srid]

Looks like this got addressed in 5.0.0.2