Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ...
by naniwaduni on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:56AM
(#22245438)
You're already trusting an entire browser, with all its transitive dependencies, a large portion of your OS, and probably also every single program you run with the same uid as your browser.
But an extension requiring explicit permission to observe and modify all of the content your browser ever renders is unacceptable.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ...
by freeone3000 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:36AM
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It's sort of a separation of concerns. There's no fine-grained way to say "intercept this list of URLs and deny some of them" without allowing it to also view and modify the entire content of every web page.
This one is bullshit. I don't run an adblocker today because I think it is insane to grant extensions the ability to observe and modify all of the content your browser ever renders.
Chrome changing to a rule based system is both the only sane option (I might finally decide to use an adblocker that uses the new system), and it also is in line with how Safari enables extensions.