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by QuadmasterXLII 231 days ago
I highly recommend following the official tutorial to create a browser extension for your preferred browser, and just making any changes to websites there instead of installing extensions made by someone else. For example, removing youtube shorts is like five lines of code in my personal extension. The rate at which published browser extensions turn into malware has escalated from “oh that’s concerning” to “How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man”
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How would your tutorial help get voting information from other users?
You don't even need to make your own extension, which requires a bunch of boilerplate and docs. Userscripts (eg. greasemoney) or userstyles (eg. stylus) is often all you need, and much more straightforward to make.
Is there a browser with native userscripts? because if I install a userscript extension, its just going to get push-updated to add malware like OP