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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 72 points 8 months ago

Since January 2018, 42% of malicious extensions use the Web Request API.

That's like making knifes illegal in general because they have been used in a certain amount of murder cases.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

And now, a new golden age of malvertisement will emerge...

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

Indeed. What a f-ing stupid argument: "We cannot trust the extensions that the user installed, therefor we give malware from advertisers free roam!"

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If 42% of crimes used a handgun, we should ban those too.

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