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Re:Webpass by jacques_chester on Sunday March 06, 2016 @11:17AM (#11234239)
> there is no way I'm installing their browser plugin

Plugins provide a sandbox which hostile publishers can't attack. It also helps that plugins get a much richer API to work with.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a competing product.

Re:Webpass by andy_ppp on Sunday March 06, 2016 @12:29PM (#11234572)
Which one? I've seen a few in this space... I thought I was being original :-D
Re:Webpass by jacques_chester on Sunday March 06, 2016 @12:46PM (#11234648)
Robojar. As I said elsewhere, I've been entirely too busy focusing on the core protocol design -- it was the subject of an honours dissertation and then a patent application.

Nobody's heard of it because I am still bad at thinking like a product person instead of an engineer.