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What a boring "gotcha". By that measure a browser should also allow any HTTPS certificate, self-signed or expired, and any other invalid certificate, and allow unrestricted unlimited access to all storage and all features. Oh no, that would be idiotic... Just as silly as conflating not implementing a technical feature or basic safety protections with "curation".

Hey your email provider also shouldn't do curation either, then why does it have a spam filter?!?! Checkmate atheists!



I'm curious about where you draw the line between basic safety features/spam filtering and "curation" and the reasons behind that.

Ad blockers just use a list of known malicious URLs/domains/CSS selectors and use that to block/hide elements.

This is identical to Safe Browsing (preventing loading of known malicious domains) which you seem to be fine with and don't see as "curation".




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