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What a bunch of fear-mongering... Browser extensions are subject to a permissions system, just like apps. Their code is also fully visible to you, and fully s
by SquareWheel 8y ago
What a bunch of fear-mongering...
Browser extensions are subject to a permissions system, just like apps. Their code is also fully visible to you, and fully sandboxed.
The only real danger to extensions right now is that they can auto-update without a user review, and thus can "turn evil". It's happened to a handful of popular extensions (eg. Stylish).
Requiring the user to manually update extensions has its own share of problems though, so I'm not even sure if I disagree with browsers makers decision to auto-update.
But the claim that "all extensions are keyloggers" is just blatant nonsense.