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Chrome has such a myriad variety of extensions that using Safari is simply not feasible.

1. uBlock Origin - the content-based blockers on Safari are not nearly as good 2. Zotero connector - for my academic work 3. Session Buddy - for saving sessions 4. Proxy switcher - for selectively using my uni proxy for academic resources

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Do you really want to allow a myriad of extensions access to your web browser data? I can understand if you have a couple you like but personally I find extensions only make Chrome slower and I don’t trust most of them because of the deep access you need to grant. I’d just as rather turn my proxy on for a minute at the OS level and not have a permanent extension running in every single Chrome tab.

All of the extensions I use are open source (not that that counts for a lot, but I still tend to take a look at the repository before I install them).

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