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DANGER, Will Robinson! I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new
by herewulf 6y ago
DANGER, Will Robinson!
I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new (since June) "maintainer". This issue sums it up well: "SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious"[1]
Here is the gist of it:
> Using the chrome web store version of this extension, without disabling tracking, will execute code from an untrusted third-party on your computer, with the power to modify any and all websites that you see.
So, installing from the Chrome Web Store is a complete no-go.
One can still install the extension from GitHub, but with Chrome constantly evolving and the now, unmaintained-on-GitHub extension having known issues with losing all your tabs (to which there are workarounds), I'm very wary of using this extension.
[1]: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263 https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
- wutbrodo 6y agoThank you for the heads-up! The way extension stores work always made me a little uneasy about using smaller ones like this. Edit: haha, someone seems to have seen your comment and made a post that made it to the Frontpage of HN
- herewulf 6y agoYou're welcome! Yes, it's quite problematic and there are numerous ways malicious code can abuse the sandboxed environment. That's great news about that article! Thanks for pointing that out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015