Can we go back to making all this garbage, I don’t know, a browser extension or something?

All of this crap that everyone keeps pulling into their browsers needs to be ripped back out and made a plugin or an extension. Stop shoving it in the core damn browser. I didn’t need the waste of space and I’m never going to touch it.

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philipallstar 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would a VPN be a good browser extension?

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lukan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Convenience. I also don't mind it in the browser as it would not really add much complexity. Some lines of code at most? VPN's do not require complex client logic - they require actual servers that reroute the user traffic - that is the expensive part.

And for many non technical users that is very useful, if they can get that with a click. To get geoblocked content, etc.

Mozilla has done way worse things, much more distracting from their core mission - building a browser that people want to use and trust.

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kotaKat 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why does the VPN need to be integrated into the browser itself?

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philipallstar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think it should. You think it should be a browser extension. I don't think it should either be integrated or a browser extension.

	▲	fortyseven an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think we can interpret "browser extension" as a catch-all for "not directly built into the browser", in whatever form that takes.
	▲	kotaKat 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Quite frankly I don't think it should be either. I'm sick of browsers trying to sidestep my operating system's networking stack (be it forcing their own DNS implementations for 'security' or now this BS).