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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by tadfisher on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:20AM (#27444188)
Google Play changed their policies to disallow downloading and executing code from sources other than the Play Store. The blessed extensions in Firefox for Android are actually shipped in the APK.
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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by lawl on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:29AM (#27444223)
False. When they rolled this out i was trvially able to replace the allowed extensions id's with a root shell and they downloaded and worked just fine. Also, a website is also downloading and execing js, the same as an extension.
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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by anonymousab on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:08AM (#27447426)
There are other browsers that allow custom extensions, and Firefox Nightly does with a bit of finagling.
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