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> Clone the GitHub repo, … build from source, update manually

I’d be ok to do that once per extension, but then I’ve got multiple PCs (m), multiple browser profiles (p), OS-reimages (r), and each extension (e) locally installed doesn’t sync — manually re-installing local extensions m x p x r x e times is too much for me. :-( (And that’s even if I’m only running Chrome, as opposed to multiple browser or Chromium derivatives.)

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Yeah that one's too much for me too, I used to do this years ago, but not anymore. Especially since I found out Brave supports network blocking for extensions, which is something you generally set up once and then forget about it. I'm just giving people tools and ideas I didn't see mentioned elsewhere in the comments, it's up to everyone to figure out their particular threat scenarios and tradeoffs individually.

This could probably be automated though if someone wanted to tackle it. git pull, agentic code review, auto-build from source, install.

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