I recently implemented authentication for a Chrome extension, and it was interesting.

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Recently, I was working on a Chrome extension for a web app where I wanted to share the login state between the extension and the web app. Generally you'd roll with a token-based authentication system or relying on API keys, but neither of those approaches are acceptable if you want