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Re:Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the e... by jenwkejnwjkef on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:23PM (#25816326)
Yeah. The $99/year is big enough to pretty much block out all hobby devs and open-source projects, so what's left are generally commercial and closed-source. Apple says that they do their own vetting of extensions, but I don't trust Apple to prevent extensions from reading my browsing history, especially considering spyware extensions like Honey are served on the App Store without warning.
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Re:Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the e... by nojito on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:03PM (#25816641)
> especially considering spyware extensions like Honey are served on the App Store without warning.

You have to explicitly grant permissions as a user for safari extensions.

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Re:Safari 14 added WebExtensions support, so where are the e... by jenwkejnwjkef on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:04PM (#25817066)
Yes but every extension that does anything remotely interesting needs access to "your entire browsing history," which is a comment much scarier than it usually is. The truth is that it is impossible for a computer to distinguish malicious javascript from useful javascript, meaning all trust and verification needs to come from the user.
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