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“It’s not that hard” (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

This is true and also an issue for Firefox.

It is difficult to address, and if the extension isn’t open source you should be especially careful.

That said there are extensions with security reviews performed by the Mozilla foundation and you can see that on the extension page.