Stylus Extension & Security Concerns about darker-medium

[Mottie]

[Mottie]

Hi @nikolay!

There should be no security concerns with this extension — I'll add a section to the readme repeating what I state here. Anyone can examine the code for the extension to verify this statement:

This browser extension does not collect any personal data. The only data stored is the user style preferences (the state of the extension, five colors & an underline setting). Absolutely nothing else is shared or tracked; it's not using Google Analytics.

As for a Stylus userstyle, I could create one, but it would have to be manually updated to include every Medium story domain; there are so many and I don't have the time to always keep the list up-to-date... I did bring up a suggestion with the other developers of Stylus in this issue to allow targeting a selector within the HTML; but it was rejected, and my suggestion to wicg to extend the @-document rule didn't appear to gather much interest. That is how this extension was born.

Since it's probably not a bad idea, I think I'll go ahead and create a userstyle that can be used by Stylus; but, I think I'll make it as a usercss style — allowing it to be installed directly from GitHub. This will soon be supported by Stylus (see PR #134). I'll also host it on freestyler.ws. I'm still undecided about userstyles.org... the new owners are seriously neglecting their site and extension.