There was a mild uproar recently about Firefox adding a feature that could allow mozilla to push out extension blacklists or something, or disable extensions entirely for a specific site (for "security" of course). I'd read the details but all I have is a reddit link and all the libreddit instances are ratelimited rn: r/MozillaInAction/comments/14rt5jx/firefox_115_can_silently_remotely_disable_my/

so I just saw an HSTS popup and was reminded: there's already a sorta analagous feature that restrict's the user's ability to make their own decisions on privacy/security matters: HSTS. It prevents users from loading a page without working HTTPS even if they want to take that risk, and it is controlled by the site owner entirely, the user has no say.

    • The_Grinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I think we should always have a way to bypass that kind of thing though. Use a secret keyboard command and then have to type "Yes I would very much like to get hacked and have all my data stolen thank you" verbatim maybe. I don't think we should ever be flatly saying "no" to the user If they know what they're doing and want to take the risk.