Re:Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackabl...
by scarface74 on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:43PM
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My point of view is that we need to make users aware of the risks and make them more responsible because things will not get any easier.
How has that been working for the last 30 years? Why would it start now?
Computers have been mainstream consumer appliances since the “multimedia PCs” were a thing in the mid 90s. Most people no more want to program computers than they want to fix their own cars.
A personal computer has always been very complicated and using it has always been a risk in itself. I remember a time when a virus could damage the computer's hardware, and someone who knew how to program in BASIC (edit: or LOGO) was not considered as a "minority".
My point of view is that we need to make users aware of the risks and make them more responsible because things will not get any easier.
No need to optimize, I switched to Firefox, the browser for the minorities ;). I really liked Chrome though.