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I don’t understand why there’s not an fdroid-like store for open source chrome extensions. All my most important extensions are open source. I try to find ones
by zenapollo 3y ago
I don’t understand why there’s not an fdroid-like store for open source chrome extensions. All my most important extensions are open source. I try to find ones that are. But I’m not savvy enough to do checksums and all that so i just trust the deployed app is the same one on GitHub.
- palant 3y agoNote: I am the author of this article. It’s easy: Google owns the browser, so they decide which websites are allowed to install extensions. And Google decided a while ago that the only way to ensure your safety is allowing only Chrome Web Store as installation source. That’s it, installing extensions from third-party sources is so awkward that nobody will do it. Besides, automatic updates wouldn’t work anyway.