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Re:Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google by skybrian on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:07PM (#41284047)
Ironically the stricter permissions are because browser extensions sometimes have crap security and the Internet is a hostile place.

The browser itself might be pretty much okay, but the extensions are where the terrible code is.

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Re:Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google by justinclift on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:24AM (#41288053)
How co-incidental that Google chose a model that somehow reduces one of their significant revenue risks, that of ad blockers.

Clearly there was no other way... /s

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