Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by jopsen on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:15AM (#23560925)

Next up is a firestorm over broken extensions, followed by baseless conspiracy theories on how this is all ploy for Mozilla to ban adblockers..

Web Extensions caused lots of outcry, when it was mostly about making extensions async and better sandboxed.

EME caused similar outcry, when in fact it migrated us away from plugins riddled with security vulnerabilities (hint Flash). Today most DRM crap runs in a sandbox -- DRM still sucks, but it doesn't compromise my browser :)

I'm suspect, extensions will be sandboxed further, but this will take time.

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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by Silhouette on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:52AM (#23561147)

The Web Extensions change in Firefox caused complaints mostly because it broke so much useful functionality, much of which has never been replaced. In quite a few cases that was because of the new security model, but also because the new API simply wasn't powerful enough to do the job properly either.

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