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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 Chromebo

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?

tasogare 5y ago
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.
richardstephens 5y ago
Without Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, and JSONView, the web feels broken to me.
- markwillis82 5y ago
  Thank you for Dark Reader... this has made a world of difference
- gpvos 5y ago
  Those, plus Multi-account containers, and Violentmonkey for a small number of corrections to websites.
  - e3bc54b2 5y ago
    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.
detaro 5y ago
Why are you amazed about that?
- mahogany 5y ago
  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?
  - howinteresting 5y ago
    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.
- Inhibit 5y ago
  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.

tasogare 5y ago

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.

richardstephens 5y ago

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

markwillis82 5y ago
Thank you for Dark Reader... this has made a world of difference
gpvos 5y ago
Those, plus Multi-account containers, and Violentmonkey for a small number of corrections to websites.
- e3bc54b2 5y ago
  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.

detaro 5y ago

Why are you amazed about that?

mahogany 5y ago
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?
- howinteresting 5y ago
  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.
Inhibit 5y ago
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.