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“It’s not arbitrary JS, it needs to be reviewed by the Chrome Web Store team, unless it’s a userscript or we miss it in our review process!” https://groups.goo
by btown 4y ago
“It’s not arbitrary JS, it needs to be reviewed by the Chrome Web Store team, unless it’s a userscript or we miss it in our review process!”
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/ZUZqOgwqkBg https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
It’s the equivalent of an airport security policy - as I mentioned before, to reduce risk. Which, both in that analogy and here, can indeed be part of a defense-in-depth. But such a policy is not without tradeoffs, and it cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.
- xani_ 4y agoI bet far more people got scammed by malicious ads than people deciding to install malicious extension.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWell, you’d need to compare the number of people pwned by ads that couldn’t be blocked by MV3-style adblocking rather than all ads. Static rule based adblocking works just fine for me on iOS so I’m not going to assume that’s going to be a large number of people.