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Comment by nomilk

2 hours ago

Chrome extensions do the same thing, but worse (the warnings make it sound like the creator of the extension is going to see every page you visit, when really it's code that runs in the browser; it doesn't take html or any other data anywhere)

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TingPing  2 hours ago

But it could… it’s arbitrary code execution and should be scary.

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