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lxgryesterday at 11:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why should there not be a middle ground between “can do absolutely everything with all my data” and “is basically a glorified bookmark button” based on the level of trust I have for an extension?


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mzajctoday at 1:33 AM

Because security is the pretext, not the goal here. I'm sure browsers could have better security controls for extensions, but giving users extra control over software doesn't seem to be very popular among corpos nowadays.

inigyoutoday at 12:49 AM

Because the browser already has bookmark buttons