Gee, I really haven't considered your approach.. considering extensions can really be trojan horses for malware, that's a good idea..

It's interesting how old phone OSes like BlackBerry had a great security model (fine-grained permissions) but when the unicorns showed up they just said "Trust us, it'll be fine..", and some of these companies provide browsers too..

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delusional 5 days ago | parent [-]

> Trust us, it'll be fine..

That's because their product is the malware. Anything they did to block malware would also block their products. If they white listed their products, competition laws would step in to force them to consider other providers too.

	▲	dns_snek 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> If they white listed their products, competition laws would step in to force them to consider other providers too. Uh, you're describing SafetyNet and at least a dozen similar anti-competitive measures by big tech. They've been doing this for years and regulators have basically been ignoring it. DMA over on the EU side hints at this changing but it's too little too late.