If Google really wants more secure extensions, why not just police the store better?

inb4 sites start blocking Firefox to prevent adblocking :desolate:

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    if you're not using Firefox you're a :LIB:

    inb4 sites start blocking Firefox to prevent adblocking

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher :not-hillary:

    • kota [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Sadly not the silver bullet it once was. These days asshole sites will run some random experimental js that chrome happens to support and firefox doesn't. If they get an error the user is running firefox.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        Sites that I won't be visiting :shrug-outta-hecks: in my experience that hasn't been very common, most at least nominally support both

        The only sites that work noticeably worse on Firefox than on chrome are Google sites because, well, of course