> Remember to audit your extensions frequently, and remove any unused extensions.
> In the case of Nano Defender, users were not notified before control of the extension was transferred to a third-party. That's not the right way to handle this.
The whole browser extension ecosystem seems to be purposefully bloated with such loopholes allowing such backdoors.
I remember seeing a clg presentation, "a browser is a literal nuke you carry on yourself, whatever be the ... or claims as of sandboxing, you're already dead" - loosely quoted.
just a note (you can ignore) : I am actually a believer of iterations in development and incremental optimisations. But even a minimum viable product should be able to work.
EDIT #1:
you're cool. but i really dont know what elastisearch is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And a google "search" hurts at the moment.
EDIT #2 :
> multiple people respond and say that Lucene basically does the same thing Google does and that Lucene is poised to surpass Google's capabilities in the next few years. It's been long enough since then that we can look back and say that Lucene hasn't improved so much that Google is in danger from a startup that puts together a Lucene cluster. [1]
>There are many quotes on questions, like “better to ask and be thought a fool for five minutes than to remain a fool forever” and the likes, but to me, there is something deeper than that. Asking questions often reveals a lot more information than just the answer to the question, almost regardless of the situation.
Thanks. Explains a lot already.
>make me sigh with frustrated rage
I could've asked "do we render emojis here? ⭐"
Or "are ascii emojis downvoted? ಠ_ಠ "
>it is always worth doing a search before asking questions rather than receiving a spoon-fed answer
"meta" question. Not well documented.
>>> I don't know if meta posts are allowed or not. (post)
Well rules out searching.
>Search is your friend when it comes to things like 'why doesn't HN do x or y?'
Thank you for taking my comment in the (well intentioned) spirit it was posted in. The 'frustrated rage' was not directed towards you personaly and I thank you for not taking it that way.
> In the case of Nano Defender, users were not notified before control of the extension was transferred to a third-party. That's not the right way to handle this.
The whole browser extension ecosystem seems to be purposefully bloated with such loopholes allowing such backdoors. I remember seeing a clg presentation, "a browser is a literal nuke you carry on yourself, whatever be the ... or claims as of sandboxing, you're already dead" - loosely quoted.