The Safari approach is next to useless, because it can be easily circumvented. That many publishers don't do it, that's only because they don't have the know-how or because they don't want to piss off what's still a minority.
Note that the browser is the "user agent", acting on behalf of the user and extensions are for extending the capabilities of the user agent. The browser should be yours and should do what you tell it to do.
Users only need one or two extensions that they need to trust. Can't you trust uBlock Origin? If no, given its open source nature and the people that work on them, then why can you trust Chrome and Google more?
The privacy angle is a complete red herring.
Yes, Chrome's Store is filled with spyware, but that's Google's fault for having a broken review process. Firefox (addons.mozilla.org) does not have the same problem, in spite of the fact that Firefox lacked permissions until the Quantum release.
Note that the browser is the "user agent", acting on behalf of the user and extensions are for extending the capabilities of the user agent. The browser should be yours and should do what you tell it to do.
Users only need one or two extensions that they need to trust. Can't you trust uBlock Origin? If no, given its open source nature and the people that work on them, then why can you trust Chrome and Google more?
The privacy angle is a complete red herring.
Yes, Chrome's Store is filled with spyware, but that's Google's fault for having a broken review process. Firefox (addons.mozilla.org) does not have the same problem, in spite of the fact that Firefox lacked permissions until the Quantum release.