Is Pie Adblock safe?

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Pie Adblock is medium risk. Pie Adblock declares pie.org as an externally_connectable origin, which lets pages on pie.org send messages directly to the extension's background service worker. One of the handlers exposed on that external channel, named 'management:adblockers_disable', walks through every extension installed on your browser and turns off any that match a hardcoded list of competing ad blockers and privacy tools — uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, AdGuard, Ghostery, uBO Lite, and others. Because the extension holds the 'management' permission, it can flip those extensions to disabled without a separate per-action prompt. Code analysis confirmed the handler is registered on the external (pie.org-reachable) message bus, and a live test confirmed the extension accepts the disable command from pie.org. The list of which extensions get disabled is supplied by Pie's remote configuration, so the targeting can change server-side at any time.

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