@simon Reminds me of my blog post about How Firefox...

@simon Reminds me of my blog post about How Firefox gives special permissions to *some* domains. https://frederikbraun.de/special-browser-privileges-for-some-domains.html

Like 9 July at 18:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.security.plumbing

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AlexTECPlayz

@freddy @simon Well, at least in Firefox's case it doesn't seem to give an unfair advantage to Mozilla or something.

9 July at 19:29 | Open on techhub.social

allo

@alextecplayz
It for example allows them to use Google analytics on their addons site even though I have ublock installed. Maybe the competition does not care, but I would value my privacy.

11 July at 8:21 | Open on chaos.social

alexanderadam

@freddy @simon the Firefox features make sense though, don't they? 🤔

9 July at 21:27 | Open on ruby.social

Rhababerbarbar

@freddy
@simon

That is unrelated. It was to protect against malicious addons installing extentions by injecting downloads on addons.mozilla.org

11 July at 7:14 | Open on tux.social

Frederik Braun �

@Rhababerbarbar @simon Well, I think it's related :-) Yes, the research/blog post was triggered by a bug in content-scripts handling in Chrome. It also explains how Firefox is adding extra permissions using a permissionsmanager for some of its features (in contrast to a hidden web extension, as Chrome appears to be doing here).

11 July at 8:21 | Open on social.security.plumbing

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