> It's strange that addons have so much unsandboxed power. That's because addons are a relic from the wild west era of the 1990s, where the philosophy was to g

> It's strange that addons have so much unsandboxed power. That's because addons are a relic from the wild west era of the 1990s, where the philosophy was to give the user a chainsaw and if they chop their own leg off that's their problem. That's in contrast to the modern software design philosophy, which is that the average user is so drunk they're almost falling over, and the world should contain no chainsaws whatsoever in order to accommodate this. Browser designers would love to remove add-ons, but no browser can succeed without an ad blocker, and providing an extension mechanism provides this, without requiring the browser maker to get into the ad blocking game personally.