Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
by kccqzy on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:11PM
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You have a different definition of "malicious" than the general public. In fact most of us on HN do. That shouldn't be dictating what browser vendors think of as malicious extensions. Consider an extension that tracks your browsing in exchange for giving you promo codes to get 5% off on some purchase. Plenty of users have considered this kind of trade off and decided that the 5% discount is worth the privacy impact. Most HNers would consider it malicious. But if browser vendors start to block these extensions we would sooner hear news reports of tech companies being overly paternalistic.
You are not speaking for all users and you know it.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
by flangola7 on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:49PM
(#37218039)
No informed user would consent to a Trojan however.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
by beebeepka on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:08AM
(#37219230)
Just like nobody informed is using a smartphone or cloud anything
This is a total non-sequitur. The source of all malicious browser extensions is Google, Apple and Mozilla, and none of them have demonstrated any willingness whatsoever to fix the problem, even when a mere grep across their distributed extension base can trivially identify all the various openly advertised trojan SDKs that cause millions of users to be tracked or have their internet connection reused for various shady proxy websites.