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Comment by cabirum

Extensions have access to browser APIs not available to webpages and run on your every request. Thus they are inherently more dangerous. So installing unsigned extensions from questionable sources makes you clueless, yes.

Vanilla js running on webpages should be considered relatively safe. It's sandboxed and not able to do anything - malicious of not - outside it's restricted environment. It can't even get your location or lock a cursor without asking for permission first.

If you could somehow disable all logic from executing in your OS native apps, would you do this by default?

parent cabirum 11 years ago

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