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Scary. Browser extensions are my biggest worry. Most popular extensions come from small indie developers with no track record, and without the oversight of the
by guiambros 5y ago
Scary. Browser extensions are my biggest worry. Most popular extensions come from small indie developers with no track record, and without the oversight of the open source community.
It's also time consuming to inspect the source for each extension (particularly if it's minified, no comments, etc). And pointless, given they will auto-update. And depending on permissions, they may access your cookies, localStorage, browser URLs, intercept clipboard, etc.
Of course you should still be careful, only give specific permissions, read reviews, check if the code was published, etc, but it's still a massive surface area, like demonstrated by OP's proof-of-concept.