Yes, but it’s about the tiniest step they could possibly take. It just officially makes violating “trust me, bro” against the rules, but does absolutely nothing to prevent it, nor allow the user to directly prevent such abuse. Some extensions don’t need Internet access at all, but there’s no (easy) way to stop it from happening. Others only need occasional access for updates, but there’s no user control for whether that’s all they’re doing.

I think the practice really took off with the arrival of AI & people not wanting their stuff harvested for training it. My personal feeling might be considered rather defeatist, but I don’t see the point in doing that because they’re going to feed whatever they can get their hands on to the AI beast, and so I’d rather have at least some miniscule influence over what it regurgitates to others.

Now, if we can just get the robber barons and their wholely-owned politicians out of the way of progress…

Attempting? Where TF have you been all year?

Can you not make a clean copy elsewhere before use?

Thx for the explainer - I have some research to do.

I’m not sure what that last part means, but TY.

I don’t ever want to have to set up my PC again. Will Tumbleweed be good to accomplish this for a user used to Windows?

That is why I specified “less extreme,” but yeah, that’s fair.

Less extreme Leftists generally aren’t nearly as likely to be control freaks as the right (although there are always exceptions), so getting them (as a group) angry enough to fight takes much more effort than it does the right.

Normally I’d say Sling didn’t have a prayer under this administration, but Disney has pissed everybody off - including the Grand Cheeto - so I’m just gonna go stock up on some popcorn…