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Fix Chrome Extension Rejection: How to Avoid 'Purple Potassium'
Google's 'Purple Potassium' rejection flag targets Chrome extensions with excessive or unused permissions. Common causes include declared API permissions never called, overly broad host access, and leftover permissions from removed features. A new CLI tool, tabsmith-lint, can automatically detect these issues before submission.
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The tool is useful, but the real story is Google's increasingly strict review process, which forces developers to be more disciplined about permissions.
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