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As far as I can tell, there are two reasons for this feature, the legitimate one is that users largely have browser extensions which are malware. They may have
by Gigachad 3y ago
As far as I can tell, there are two reasons for this feature, the legitimate one is that users largely have browser extensions which are malware. They may have even been legitimate when they installed them, but then auto updated to be malware later. This poses a problem for banking sites because desktop browsers can no longer be trusted to be secure so they push you to use the mobile app or at least confirm transactions with the app which is trusted.
The illegitimate reason is they can stop ad blockers and content downloaders / DRM bypassers.
- jsnell 3y agoWhat you've written is a great illustration of what tedunangst said people are doing. The proposal literally is not about extensions. The only context in which extensions are mentioned is to explicitly say that the mechanism is not for policing the installed extensions or other browser features. So how exactly are you determining that this is what the proposal is really about? It seems that it can only be by ignoring the proposal text and making up your own ideas of what it is about.