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by navanchauhan 1929 days ago
I’m not familiar with Chrome/Firefox extensions, but for Safari Web Extensions you can indeed restrict extensions. [0]

Edit: Looks like this feature is present in Chrome/Firefox extensions as well but for all these platforms (Safari included I think), this needs to be implemented in the code itself[1]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10504239/limit-chrome-ex...

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It's at the core of the WebExtensions APIs permissions system:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

WE are implemented both by Chromium and Firefox (with nuances)