This is an absurdist point of view. If you go to the average non-technical user's Chrome extensions tab, they have 10-12 extensions. 7 of them are actively mal

This is an absurdist point of view. If you go to the average non-technical user's Chrome extensions tab, they have 10-12 extensions. 7 of them are actively malicious. This isn't like a "hey, freedom allows you the freedom to make mistakes" thing. This is a "good practice hasn't even been attempted here, and it's the top vector of all bad things ever" thing. It's fine for browser extensions to exist, they serve a purpose. However, all existing extension stores should probably delist the entirety of their collection, solely re-accept extensions which an actual software engineer has reviewed, and make it much harder than one click to inadvertently install one when a website asks you to.