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>The security benefit to consumers of blocking user scripts is probably a net positive for the average internet user. Strong disagree. Extensions and User scri
by contentboot 4y ago
>The security benefit to consumers of blocking user scripts is probably a net positive for the average internet user.
Strong disagree. Extensions and User scripts are an unmapped wild west.
Providing a registry type system to securely vend packages/scripts is a very hard security problem.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-blocks-malicious-add-ons-installed-by-455k-firefox-users/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-block...
https://iamakulov.com/notes/npm-malicious-packages/ https://iamakulov.com/notes/npm-malicious-packages/