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I may be wrong, but these add-ons seem shady to me. The website pointed to as the homepage is an add-ridden site that is supposedly a community for open-source
by stfwn 7y ago
I may be wrong, but these add-ons seem shady to me. The website pointed to as the homepage is an add-ridden site that is supposedly a community for open-source development, but all the links to 'fork me on GitHub' don't go anywhere. I can't find the source at all. This topic comes up often but these have never been posted and the add-ons have relatively few users (4k, 1.5k, 2k and 0.7k).
I don't know anything about browser add-ons. Perhaps someone who does could take a look and see what's up?
- humaniania 7y agoI am extremely cautious about installing any sort of browser extension; especially ones that request such intrusive permissions that could so easily be severely exploited with any given update.
- bredren 7y agoParticularly an extension that wants access to all websites an d their data. Since the browser has very open permissions from the firewall, and these run under those rules it is open season for an extension dev to send out data.
- jrcii 7y agoI unpacked the XPIs and inspected the JavaScript source. Nothing suspicious (remote URLs, obfuscated code, etc) looking in there.