[Browsergate]

I am the one who published the findings at browsergate.eu and I think most of the debate here misses the point.

This is not about sandboxed or not. That's not the point.

The point is this is being done on a platform with 1 billion users with REAL NAMES, with REAL JOBS, working for REAL EMPLOYERS.

This is a privacy violation by every meaning of the term. But it is a lot more: It is the largest INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE operation I have ever heard of.

Literally every company on the planet (and every institution) have their employees browsers scanned for installed extensions. Some 200 are DIRECT COMPETITORS to Microsoft.

This is not about the behavior or a rando website trying to stop malicious actors.That's simply misses the point. By far.