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I'm still amazed that people install (outside of very specific development or page manipulation use cases) Chrome extensions.

Are these more common on Chromebooks or some other platform I don't regularly use?

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Without Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, and JSONView, the web feels broken to me.

Thank you for Dark Reader... this has made a world of difference

Those, plus Multi-account containers, and Violentmonkey for a small number of corrections to websites.

Oh the amount of extensions that do one thing that can be much easier and cleaner to be integrated via userscripts is staggering!

Its all the little things that add up, and I hate that mobile Firefox update disabled Tampermonkey.

Talk about planned regressions. Pardon my French, but fuck Mozilla and their recommended extensions program.

Why are you amazed about that?

As a Firefox extension user myself, it is pretty crazy what permissions we allow from them. Even with something like uBlock Origin, which I'm sure a lot of people here use, one of the permissions you have to accept is literally "Access your data for all websites". Why are we okay with that?

Well, the alternative is static filter lists like in Safari, which results in a worse experience.

I trust gorhill much more than I trust random ad delivery networks trying to possibly exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.

Good question. I think my perception is that finding and using them is a high bar of entry.

And the suspicion that Google doesn't do even a cursory examination would put me off of using anything that isn't independently vetted.

Even development ones are dangerous, even more so because of the broad permissions they often requires. I’m pretty sure that’s how I got my credit card number stolen once.

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