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Wake me up when Apple has started helping foster a community of developers for Safari plugins.

Chrome is useful because it's so extendable.

I am sorry to say that you are ignoring the importance of privacy, and somewhat flippantly making the case for extensibility over privacy. Safari's (and Apple's) commitment to privacy is to be commended and we should try not to lose sight of it because of our personal preferences.

Apple sells default placement to search engines like Google and Bing. If it it really cared about privacy 1. It would not sell it's customers to Google or Bing as search placement 2. It would put duckduckgo or similar as default.

This is a fair critique. I wish they didn't sell the search placement in the first place.

Once they have intelligent tracking protection enabled though it won't matter what search engine you use, because it will prevent tracking on all of them. Just including DuckDuckGo in the defaults is a huge step forward. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was defaulted if Google keeps trying to circumvent adblocking measures.

The product manager who picked Google likely did so because of user preference.

Oh come on. That is such a completely different issue. There's a serious problem if you can only look at something as a whole and not commend certain aspects of something.

To a person on a vendetta every act is criminal.

Apple has extensions and they have a developer program:

https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/

The reason developers aren't all that interested is because these extensions are Mac only not because Apple isn't interested in having them.

What the heck does that have to do with privacy? You make it sound like you think people are talking about which browser is better overall.

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