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Addons pose a significant increased security risk. (I would honestly advocate for the radical position of requiring you enable a "allow addons" checkbox, with a warning, before installing any browser extensions.)

I absolutely agree that browser vendors have huge conflicts of interest, and we need to address those by forcibly separating browsers from companies inherently in conflict with privacy.




Yep, just remember the controversy when Firefox included Pocket naively. Some people loved it, others hated it.




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