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by vunderba 66 days ago
Cheers! I feel like the vast majority of extensions could be rewritten as either TamperMonkey or Stylus scripts.

I’m always leery of installing new extensions (nothing against Orange Juice) because of all the high-profile cases where they get bought out by unscrupulous companies and basically turn into malware payload delivery systems.

It’s nice to be able to reduce the attack surface down to just these two extensions, which have been around for a long time.
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jasomill 66 days ago
I agree, though I use Violentmonkey instead of Tampermonkey because open source, and uBlock Origin because rewriting it as a *monkey script is somewhere between "Implement a MIDI Machine Control interface to my turntable" and "Rewrite FreeBSD in Rust" on my project list.
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vunderba 66 days ago
Haha yeah - same I only run three extensions (uBlock Origin, Stylus, and Tampermonkey) but I'll be swapping over to violentmonkey [1]. Thanks for the recommendation - didn't realize there was a FOSS equivalent.

https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey

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