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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by Triv888 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:24PM (#25623706)
It could do all the processing locally, easily... what are you talking about?
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Re:The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious by gruez on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:53PM (#25624007)
>It could do all the processing locally, easily...

That's irrelevant. If you can make changes to the page, you can exfiltrate data. The security model for addons isn't designed with restricting an addon's network activity in mind, see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623281

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