alt Hacker NewsMy org (or rather, the org they pay to run their IT) blocked browser plugins with a security justification.
I find this incredibly amusing, and at a different point in my life I'd already be gone.
When you outsource IT, there are many, many misaligned incentives.
> I find this incredibly amusing, and at a different point in my life I'd already be gone.
How so? Bad actors buying existing extensions with large user bases then publishing a new version which does bad stuff is a pretty common pattern. It certainy seems like a reasonable concern for a corp IT department.