@sarahv @catsalad @mozilla @torproject @eff Yes. They remove a widely misused API that allows a malicious extension to get all your secret stuff, every last drop of it.

You might be fine with your access token out in the open, the ones with access to your nude pictures. Others are clearly not.

And they replace it with something the ublock origin people (at least that’s how they call themselves on GitHub) document as almost on par with the original, but way less ways to misuse.