Fuck that. Pardon my language but that's a falsehood I am so sick of hearing repeated, and the only reason anyone believes it's an inevitable tradeoff is that t

Fuck that. Pardon my language but that's a falsehood I am so sick of hearing repeated, and the only reason anyone believes it's an inevitable tradeoff is that this belief has been imposed on us by proprietary software ecosystems that have obtained the monopoly status needed to unilaterally reject competing models The price for convenience and security being compatible is for these extensions to be auditable and for updates to be opt-in. Sure, someone could still install malicious updates under this model, but the value proposition of doing so scales with the number of people who care about the thing, and auditability allows experts who care about the thing to warn people if it does something suspicious, which also scales with the number of people who care about the thing