# The Commenter

> Searches the comments for the current tab's url

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-commenter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-commenter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `the-commenter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** kioleanu
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 18
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2020-06-18
- **First published:** 2019-01-29
- **Size:** 81 KB
- **Data as of:** 2022-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-commenter/)

## Description

Maybe you're browsing the old internet one day and you see an article. And you get this really big urge to see what the fine people on HackerNews said about it. Or maybe you want to post it yourself and you want to see if anybody had the same idea (they probably did, but if it's under three submissions, it really doesn't matter!).

Or, maybe you've found this great article on HackerNews and you want to see what the other kind of fine people from Reddit have to say about that.

Currently supported sources: HackerNews and Reddit.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `*://hn.algolia.com/*`
- `*://www.reddit.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-commenter)