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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by skybrian on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:56AM (#27445040)
Hmmm. I’m not implying anything here, but I’m wondering how we know we can trust uBlock Origin. How is its security vetted?
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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by ROARosen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:15AM (#27447491)
Hmmm. You're invited to vet it yourself here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by skybrian on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:32PM (#27454151)
This doesn't help if it gets sold to someone else, as many extensions have.
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Re:Introducing chrome.scripting by jolux on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:47AM (#27448501)
It’s open-source, and the author has a long history of supporting his product for free as an ethical good, even while some of his collaborators have went commercial and cashed out, once even taking the project name.
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