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>Unfortunately, that power has also been used to harm users in a variety of ways

it's all so tiresome

the long term goal for Google, Apple and Microsoft is no extensions at all. it is painfully obvious about the vision these companies have for the future of personal computing.

I know full well why does Mozilla do its competitors' bidding, but it does piss me off to no end to read their bullshit rationale for doing it. in 2032, we'll be reading about the removal of the address bar being a doubleplusgood thing. more security! less inequity!



> the long term goal for Google, Apple and Microsoft is no extensions at all.

Apple added extensions to Safari iOS last year and added WebExtensions API to Safari Mac the previous year, so that's demonstrably untrue of Apple.




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