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1. Groxx+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-02-24 01:42:28
Yeah, the permission model in browser plugins is all kinds of messed up.

In absolutely no way is it the plugin's decision where it should be allowed to run. It's great if it self-restricts and we should encourage that, but it's absurd in the extreme that any version of plugin support ever shipped without a way for users to override and restrict them further. Trusting the author of a thing to do what they claim to do is literal security insanity, and it always has been.

Chrome is sightly improving here, with click-to-activate extensions, but it's still pretty far from just giving me a frickin list field.

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