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jauntywundrkind10/11/20241 replyview on HN

Still a shit poor pathetic excuse to screw over the userscript/grease monkey users.

The browser is called a user agent, but this shift to absolute security no matter what, no say about it is a shift to native apps, is a shift to the developer is in control, is a shift to this being Google and the sites browser, not ours, and that being done unilaterally with nearly no opt outs is the sort of mega tectonic shift that ruins this magical special unique place in software where users had some say in what was happening. We cannot pander to imagined ever worsening users forever.

It feels like the things being done in the name of security are really building an immense prison. The work being done to allow verified age and identity checking ranks up there highly in the this corals humanity, area, not giving us agency.


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kuhsaft10/11/2024

> Still a shit poor pathetic excuse to screw over the userscript/grease monkey users.

Tampermonkey still works fine with MV3

> We cannot pander to imagined ever worsening users forever.

The most popular software/hardware will always pander to the most users. That’s why they’re the most popular.

You can’t complain about the most popular option pandering to the most users. Well, you can complain, but you might be in the minority of the users.

> It feels like the things being done in the name of security are really building an immense prison.

I get that, but we are running so much untrusted code on our machines now. Applications that use thousands of dependencies with the hope that someone spots a bad actor.

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