dnakov/little-rat
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🐀 Small chrome extension to monitor (and optionally block) other extensions' network calls
14 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 13 comments · first 2023-08-14 · latest 2026-02-13
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…seem to work all the time in Brave now, even with the flag on), activate and deactivate extensions: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat There's also this site that I've used from time to time to audit extensions quickly:…
comment by mickelsen · 2026-02-13 · in Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data -
…(chrome extension) a couple of years ago that can track and block traffic from other extensions: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
comment by npace12 · 2025-05-01 · in Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape -
…network access of other extensions, it also lets you turn them on/off from the same screen: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
comment by mickelsen · 2025-03-05 · in Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers -
…installed in developer mode bec chrome doesn’t allow extensions to interact with each normally. [0] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat?tab=readme-ov-file
comment by amendegree · 2025-01-24 · in Little Snitch feature nobody knows about -
…extension called Little Rat that records/notifies every singld url a chrome extension talks to. https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
comment by smusamashah · 2024-12-19 · in Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri) -
This reminds of little rat chrome extension https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat which tracks network requests by other extensions. This sound feature should be added to that or unblock as an extension
comment by smusamashah · 2024-11-07 · in Tracker Beeper (2022) -
…year, to detect network calls coming from other extensions. Love to see more tools like yours! [1] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
comment by npace12 · 2024-03-07 · in Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners -
Just use Little Rat to block unwanted call-homes, telemetry and stuff like that https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
comment by krembo · 2024-01-13 · in IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired -
…load it. Background.js file is the one that sends chat completion request to openai. EDIT: There is https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat to tell you which URLs your installed extensions are hitting.
comment by smusamashah · 2023-11-06 · in Show HN: Chrome addon to lookup selected text via ChatGPT using custom prompts -
…but it was downloaded fresh this evening by clicking on the 'ZIP' link in your readme.md on here: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/tree/main edit, aha, downloaded the .zip manually rather than via the link, and it has the other icons…
comment by NikkiA · 2023-09-01 · in Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't -
Nifty - but please do this more carefully: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/main/popup.js#L36 I do not want to have to worry about whether another extension can inject xss into yours with a crafted request/id/name.
comment by horsawlarway · 2023-08-14 · in Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions -
…which is supposed to be debug-only, I doubt it'll be allowed in the chrome webstore. 0: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/f0b9b6be39af9fe7f4...
comment by judge2020 · 2023-08-14 · in Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions -
The key code is here: https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat/blob/f0b9b6be39af9fe7f4... chrome.declarativeNetRequest.onRuleMatchedDebug.addListener((e) => { if (e.request.initiator?.startsWith('chrome-extension://')) { Given that the…
comment by lapcat · 2023-08-14 · in Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions -
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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensionsstory by npace12 · 2023-08-14 · 101 comments