I think there's a more fundamental problem here. We're all talking about add-ons that perform various security/privacy functions.
Why are these add-ons? Why are they not designed-in and built-in to the browser? Those are only quasi-rhetorical questions, because I'm pretty sure we all know at least some of the answers to them. But my point is that I think we're well past the time when all of this functionality should be baked-in to web browsers, not added on in a crazyquilt of sometimes-overlapping sometimes-conflicting extensions all of which have their own UI and most of which are confusing even to people who know what they're doing. As much as I really, really hate suggesting this, because one of the last things we need is more software: we need a browser built from the whiteboard up with the contemporary threat environment in mind. And I strongly suspect that the only way to get one will be to start over. Anybody got a few million dollars just laying around? ;) ---rsk -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
