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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Very interesting article!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Obviously a simple URL redirector for wikipedia requesting access to this data is absurd and would be an immediate red flag.

To you, yes it should be. But it does require knowledge about how websites and browsers work that most people don't have. I'd be very surprised if 50% of people have any idea what those permissions actually do and what would be reasonable for different extensions to have.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But installing few extensions doesn't protect against it if the few extensions you install have scope and permissions to do bad things. It's all worded in plain English, at some point you gotta just not use computers anymore if you can't read.

Even if it's good advice for nan checking emails on IE6 on windows vista, it really shouldn't be necessary for a Lemmy user.