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Definitely not a security expert here, but this is one of the reasons why I at least run ublock origin on just about everything - and recommend everyone do the

• bee_rider 3y ago
  I’m not an expert either, but the I think the experts are not really very useful in this context. At least, I typically see things about the trade off between usability and security and the need to enable certain use-cases. I think most security experts work in industry where their job is to figure out what can be done to patch things up within the constraint that their job doesn’t exist unless the company can do the stuff it needs to do to stay in business. I don't really care about any of that, I just want to be able to read text from the internet without my system getting messed up. It is a much easier use-case, because static content is usually pretty safe (although I do think there have been vulnerabilities in font and image rendering libraries). We don’t need an expert to intelligently analyze things and balance against the interests of competing parties because there’s no need to push in the “open things up” direction for the most part.