Here’s a little something I saw on the Tampermonkey’s website that got me a little worried…
The Chrome development team is currently planning changes that will disable Tampermonkey’s ability to execute foreign code. Instead, all userscripts would have to become standalone Chrome extensions.
Currently the public is asked about these changes. If you’re a userscript developer or just enjoy using this extension and want to continue using Tampermonkey in the medium term, then it would be nice if you could tell the developers more about your use case.
Please stay respectful, constructive and focused on the subject. Anything else will not help preserving Tampermonkey.
The Manifest V3 also plans to limit the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API. Therefore Adblockers like uBlock origin will not work anymore or at least only on a very limited level.
If you like Adblockers you should be concerned too
Again, this is a concern for Chrome (and chrome-based-browser)-users right?
I’m currently so allergic to G%§$e that I fail to feel sorry for anyone who uses their products. Why would you use spyware like Chrome and then want to block ads anyway? Either you care about your privacy or you don’t.
Everybody just switch to Firefox or another FLOSS browser and enjoy your new freedom!
It’s not possible, because importers are not supposed to be made into official parts of MusicBrainz. One thing is for people to decide to import data from sources that might not officially allow data reuse, and another is for MusicBrainz to actively develop and incorporate said importers into its code.
I agree on making as many as possible part of the UI. I looked into using scripts I see people using for editing because I thought that would make it so much simpler then having two screens full of open tabs while editing. Then I realized they all required you to use a keylogger and screen grabber like the tampermonkey extension and said forget that. I never will use an extension and that is why chrome is moving away from extensions to much of a security risk.
Extensions read every page you visit and know what you type on that page. If you trust the developer then use it, but I don’t trust any developer with my banking, crypto, and other sensitive information.
My 2 cents… I think a lot of the import scripts should become bot type of scripts, with a long/indefinite review (oops, voting) period. The other ones, those that add to the interface of MB, should for sure become part of the/some sort of advanced interface.
But I know… it’s easy to say this when you are not spending hours on the programming…
You define on which webpages your script is allowed to run. If you doublecheck this definition, you are pretty save. And if you use something like “Incognito” mode - or a separate browser for banking & crypting - you don’t use this scripts at all.
I didn’t install it so I didn’t know about the settings to limit what sites it is active on. I have been thinking about setting up a virtual machine just for ripping and musicbrainz editing so I may revisit using them then.
The website mentions whitelist and blacklist ability’s here. But I am the type of weirdo that would have to test it out in a VM with Wireshark and Procmon running before I trust something enough to set it free on my main system.
Yes, but Firefox developers have the habit of copying things the Chrome developers do, so sooner or later there will be calls to introduce similar changes to Firefox.
