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you can make a warning as big and scary as you can, and people will just blindly hit accept/agree/ok. the look/design of the banner is not what will stop people from hitting ok, as at this point, i don't think anything will
While this is historically true, if the text is human readable - ‘may be able to read and transmit to a third party any data you input, including credit card numbers and passwords’ - is fairly likely to raise awareness. It’s not effect, but it’s better than nothing. It’s worth contrasting clear communication such as the above to a EULA designed by scummy companies to not be read, browsers presumably have nothing to g…
One way to avoid this would be to have an extension market which highlights alternative extensions and how they differ in permissions. But it would be hard to maintain those relationships, create a new oppportunity to game trust, push responsibility onto the market owners, etc. And ultimately, many interact with proprietary products without a direct competitor e.g. if FAANGs made them. So I can't see it happening.