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by Latty 2124 days ago
> Its a poor argument for choosing browser extensions over cut & paste because the circumstances where it has an advantage are incredibly specific.

I agree that malware that has that power could do something else, but the parent post incorrectly asserted that the specific attack of keylogging would work, which it doesn't. I wasn't arguing that as the reason to use them over copy/paste.

The main thing extensions save you from is phishing attacks because they verify the origin of the page is correct for the entry, which is a really common attack and a hard thing for humans to verify consistently, and doesn't require any malware on your machine.