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How to Secure API Keys in Chrome Extension?

Banging my head off the wall trying to figure this out - there's hardly any info online that I can find.

People suggest putting the API key in a lambda function but that hardly secures anything.

Anyone have a good solution to this?

on March 18, 2023
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    Hi @maxeccles, did you find a solution? Maybe it's to handle all the logic related to database fetching in a separate web app, where the keys can be secured as environment variables. The Chrome extension would then retrieve the filtered data from this web app.

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