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It absolutely boggles my mind that anyone releases a plug-in system without sandboxing nowadays.


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Which should be left at zero unless you can get over the "you actually do have a responsibility to take basic safety measures for your users" hurdle.

Instead we routinely get zero security at all and also heavily encouraging people to install entirely unchecked stuff in a built-in and implicitly-trusted first party UI.




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