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urtution Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs

Same with prostitution and Nordic model. Porn is a bad thing, we ban it by prosecuting consumers.

urtution Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?

Unrelated things.

Each page runs in separate memory space. Chrome had this from the begging for more than a decade, Firefox added very recently https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/firefox-debuts-improved-p...

urtution Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?

I think chrome has better security model, sandboxing...

But Firefox seems to have much better security when it comes to reviewing extensions. Some popular extensions go through approval and source code review on every release.

Chrome Play store does not seems to have that. Google incentive even goes against something like UBlock. If extension gets sold, or developer account compromised, we may get widely distributed malware!