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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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Very interesting article!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But installing few extensions doesn't protect against it if the few extensions you install have scope and permissions to do bad things. It's all worded in plain English, at some point you gotta just not use computers anymore if you can't read.

Even if it's good advice for nan checking emails on IE6 on windows vista, it really shouldn't be necessary for a Lemmy user.

[โ€“] Plopp 1 points 3 months ago

Of course having fewer extensions installed doesn't protect you from the ones that you have installed. But the fewer you have the smaller your attack surface is. And as a general tip, I think it's a good one, even on Lemmy. Because I'm not going to assume people's understanding of the web, browsers or permissions. And when it comes to the general population, a lack of understanding of an extension's permissions has very little to do with ones ability to read.