{"id":1757,"date":"2019-01-22T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=6618d1bdaa2f37077a98d19fd29c0658"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:03:38","slug":"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-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"RE: Chrome change limiting extension powers, including those of uBlockOrigin.\n\nI have lots of experience on both sides here.\nThis is an extremely delicate issue. As it stands, most Chrome extensions are far too powerful.\n\nHolding judgement until I see how discussions shake out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1087923787419521026\">Twitter \/ swiftonsecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">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.  \r\n\r\nI 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.<\/div><p lang=\"en\">RE: Chrome change limiting extension powers, including those of uBlockOrigin.\n\nI have lots of experience on both sides here.\nThis is an extremely delicate issue. As it stands, most Chrome extensions are far too powerful.\n\nHolding judgement until I see how discussions shake out.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE: Chrome change limiting extension powers, including those of uBlockOrigin.<\/p>\n<p>I have lots of exper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=1757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}