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I assume you also looked into the entire code base for Chromium (you are using Chromium, aren't you? Using Chrome - with its abundance of closed source gimmicke

I assume you also looked into the entire code base for Chromium (you are using Chromium, aren't you? Using Chrome - with its abundance of closed source gimmickery - would not make sense given your statement) before deciding it was worth your trust? While I understand why you'd want to look at extension code before installing it I do not understand the trust in Chrome. Given the size of the code base it is more or less impossible for a single person to decide its trustworthiness by 'looking at the code', given that a single intentional 'mistake' can make the difference between trust and thrash.

henry_flower 10y ago
yes, I use Chromium, but mainly because Fedora doesn't have Chrome in their pkg repos. yes, I've looked into the Chromium src & have run away screaming, mainly because I'm not a big C++ fan. I'm fine w/ Google products. I don't trust a random extension from a random Vasya ThE HacKeR, especially w/ "read & change all your data" permissions.
sb8244 10y ago
You can do things in Chrome extensions that really are quite scary. Turning that around to not trusting Chrome seems like a bit of a straw man.
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