Hence the want to install Chromium extensions manually. So, in general, this may very well not be an issue to everyone, but it is still a viable issue for some. Let's not forget that a number of extensions on the Chrome Web Store have been found to steal user data.ĭepending on who you are and what you require need for your own privacy wants and needs, none of this may be a big deal to you perhaps your Google account is a "throwaway" account that you use when interacting with any other Google service in the first place. This is Google's hyper personalized recommendation system at work.Īlso, not to mention that some of the "privacy" related extensions and other related software may turn out to not to be as private or secure as advertised. You may also start seeing advertisements (can we recommend an adblocking solution while we're at it?) across the web for "privacy" and "secure" software. You may start getting search "suggestions" that relate to privacy extensions. What I mean by that 2nd point in the above sentence, is that you might start seeing more extensions related to "privacy" once you download a privacy related extension. This means that if you download a privacy related extension straight from the web store, 1) this gets directly linked your google account, which is subject to Google's privacy policy and 2) feeds some information straight to Google. This information can be relatively harmless, but we know how hard Big Tech mines any bit of information available.įor example, with the Chrome Web Store, you can only download extensions if you have and are signed into a Google account. Naturally, when you install apps and extensions from any kind of web store directly, you're trading some of your information. Installing extensions by hand or simply bypassing the Chrome Web Store, can improve your privacy. This is probably the biggest reason for most users choosing to install extensions manually. Why would you ever choose to install an extension by hand?Įxact individual reasons vary, but in general you can boil it down to a couple of points: TBH, passwords autofill was the main reason for people trying to use Safari. At least with Sonoma, Apple released an official extension for allowing the use of iCloud Passwords in other browsers, since no browser had shown interest in implementing its autofill feature available since Big Sur. IMHO, the same way Microsoft was humble enough to kill Internet Explorer, Apple should kill Safari and start a new project from scratch. In theory, it’s beautiful one day of serious work and it’s done. Good luck to those trying to make Safari a productive browser. It’s just crazy all the arguments for using Safari for privacy and security fall apart. Some people are even crazy enough to install almost a man-in-the-middle attack on their own computer by allowing these processes/extensions to encrypt all the traffic in their name. I would never trust something non-open-source running on my computer, sniffing all my internet communication. You have to install some shitty process on your MacBook, and it communicates with the Safari extension-God knows how and doing what.
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