Privacy-focused browser users want a full extension kill-switch without losing ad-blocking
In a GrapheneOS-adjacent browser community, users debate a request to let security-conscious users fully disable extension support (since MV2 extensions are considered a security risk), while others push back that this would break the browsing experience unless ad-blocking like uBlock Origin were built in natively instead.
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