Chrome extensions hellscape
I’ve been experiencing reduced performance with Firefox for a few releases now. This decrease in performance happens even with a clean profile. So, I began testing other browsers. Two of them are Chromium and Brave. They are nice and whatnot, but they have two issues in common: they threaten browser engine diversity (remember the Internet Explorer dominance days and how that negatively impacted the web?) and the Chrome Store hellscape. There are a lot - and I mean a lot - of proprietary extensions on the Chrome Store. Even worse, some tend to be a privacy nightmare. I stumbled upon a screenshot extension, Lightshot, that logs everything it can, even if not related to its functionalities. Just look at the privacy policy: ...