And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.
The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.
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That doesn’t represent disinterest by the developers. In fact, that’s a big red circled F on a report card to them, and including that comment is intentionally bringing attention to a glaring deficiency. It’s very likely that they have a plugin implemented in their IDE which surfaces TODO items vividly, and their associated Jira task or epic can’t be closed out until all of the remaining work is complete.
I’d be more worried if the code presented a clear danger to privacy and DIDN’T directly address concerns in one form or another. You should be praising this dev for raising awareness to his peers and making sure this gets done, not the opposite.
I’m a software engineer. I know what a
TODOis.My point is that privacy should have been a core design consideration, not something you factor in and handle later as a secondary concern. Put another way: the initial problem thesis that they wrote a proposal to solve should have included the idea of user privacy as a core element.
It’s a matter of incorrectly prioritized design goals that yield something which has very obvious potential to be actively harmful to users.