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by lrvick 503 days ago
Advanced users can modify the source code to disable things that get in their way. Anyone not capable of that is not capable of knowing when it is safe to turn off safety defaults.

Chromebooks at least get this one thing right. You can disable firmware signing, but only if you are comfortable taking the laptop apart to remove a magic write protection screw. That is something a scammer cannot easily convince a grandma to do.
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toast0 503 days ago
I think chromebooks have moved away from screws to special key combinations for the most part. The screw is a good idea, but having to take apart the whole thing to get to the screw is a bit much.
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eadmund 500 days ago
> Advanced users can modify the source code to disable things that get in their way. Anyone not capable of that is not capable of knowing when it is safe to turn off safety defaults.

Modifying a morass of C++ source code is not nearly the same thing as writing an extension in Javascript.

Mozilla is just fundamentally in the wrong here.

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