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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by bredren on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:31PM (#24301109)
I don’t know if it was arcane so much as it was very conservative in what it allowed.

Browser extensions can seek very wide permissions and are extremely powerful because they can automate requests from a user’s IP address.

I’d guess Apple only did this because they had to.

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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by alwillis on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:24AM (#24301344)
Even Chrome-style extensions will have limits compared to what they can do in Chrome.
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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by saagarjha on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:15AM (#24301304)
This isn't really any more powerful.
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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by bredren on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:19AM (#24301591)
I’m saying it doesn’t need to be.
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