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1. Yes, the extension uses an anonymous device ID and sends an analytics event when a tool call is used. You can inspect the network traffic to verify that zero personalized or identifying information is sent.
I collect anonymized usage data to get an idea of how often people are using the extension in the same way that websites count visitors. I split my time between many projects and having a sense of how many active users there are is helpful for deciding which ones to focus on.
2. The extension is completely written by me, and I wrote in this GitHub issue why the repo currently only contains the MCP server (in short, I use a monorepo that contains code used by all my extensions and extracting this extension and maintaining multiple monorepos while keeping them in sync would require quite a bit of work): https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/issues/1#issuecomment-2784...
I understand that you're frustrated with the way I've built this project, but there's really nothing nefarious going on here. Cheers!
You’re right, this is an adaptation of Playwright MCP to automate the user’s local browser as mentioned in the GitHub README and here:
- https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp/blob/3e6824de6f36eba7d2d3b...
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613905
Thanks for all your work to Playwright and Playwright MCP. I’m a big fan!
(For those not familiar, Pavel is the largest contributor to both Playwright and Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/graphs/contributors, https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/graphs/contribut...)