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It's all about the change to extensions isn't it? Some people just couldn't let it go.

jchw 8y ago
I still find that absurd. People actually want extensions and add-ons that get full access to their computer, can manipulate pretty much any of the browser functionality, and has been known in the past to be abused? (See noscript for example.) I will admit when I first began using Chrome some years ago I found extensions to be woefully incomplete. But even where integration is worse, I'm super glad about the approach taken with WebExtensions for exposing functionality. It gives a reasonable bound on what extensions can do, and it provides a nice API that is stable.
- shabble 8y ago
  Has Noscript abused its capabilities as an extension in the past? I can't think of (or immediately find) any suggestion that has, but now I'm curious.
  - jchw 8y ago
    They sure have! https://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users https://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users To be clear, they intentionally interfered with Adblock Plus for ages, causing a cat and mouse war between the two. Eventually they went too far and there was an apology issued. It will probably be hard to actually find much information about this as I imagine the noscript developers want to keep their reputation cleaner. As far as I know the extension no longer attempts to interfere with Adblock extensions.
    - shabble 8y ago
      I did also just find https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html as well. I thought most of the controversies have been the commercialisation/hostile takeovers of the various (ad|u)block (pro)? extensions, but seems not.
      - jchw 8y ago
        The painful reality of internet monetization right now is reading this article to the end only to see horrid clickbait article links right below it. Maybe not as bad as malware, but it really is hard to not be jaded these days. Edit: I just noticed this was Disqus doing that. So the author of the website isn't even responsible for this and probably makes no money from it. Wow... Hard to trust anyone anymore.

jchw 8y ago

I still find that absurd. People actually want extensions and add-ons that get full access to their computer, can manipulate pretty much any of the browser functionality, and has been known in the past to be abused? (See noscript for example.) I will admit when I first began using Chrome some years ago I found extensions to be woefully incomplete. But even where integration is worse, I'm super glad about the approach taken with WebExtensions for exposing functionality. It gives a reasonable bound on what extensions can do, and it provides a nice API that is stable.

shabble 8y ago
Has Noscript abused its capabilities as an extension in the past? I can't think of (or immediately find) any suggestion that has, but now I'm curious.
- jchw 8y ago
  They sure have! https://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users https://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users To be clear, they intentionally interfered with Adblock Plus for ages, causing a cat and mouse war between the two. Eventually they went too far and there was an apology issued. It will probably be hard to actually find much information about this as I imagine the noscript developers want to keep their reputation cleaner. As far as I know the extension no longer attempts to interfere with Adblock extensions.
  - shabble 8y ago
    I did also just find https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html as well. I thought most of the controversies have been the commercialisation/hostile takeovers of the various (ad|u)block (pro)? extensions, but seems not.
    - jchw 8y ago
      The painful reality of internet monetization right now is reading this article to the end only to see horrid clickbait article links right below it. Maybe not as bad as malware, but it really is hard to not be jaded these days. Edit: I just noticed this was Disqus doing that. So the author of the website isn't even responsible for this and probably makes no money from it. Wow... Hard to trust anyone anymore.