Source: Twitter / swiftonsecurity
Article note: Breaking aggressive content-editing extensions for ad-blocking and such would turn Chrome(ium) into another Google product I like killed or rendered unusable by Google's business interests.
I always think about Alan Kay's Dynabook paper "One can imagine one of the first programs an owner will write is a filter to eliminate advertising!" when I read these "general purpose platforms are too powerful, we need to restrict them so only the really powerful bad actors can scam the serfs" arguments. It's a vast failure of computer literacy.
RE: Chrome change limiting extension powers, including those of uBlockOrigin. I have lots of experience on both sides here. This is an extremely delicate issue. As it stands, most Chrome extensions are far too powerful. Holding judgement until I see how discussions shake out.
