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I think the major problem is that it is very difficult to view the source of an extension. It should be just as easy as "view source" is for html pages. Requi

I think the major problem is that it is very difficult to view the source of an extension. It should be just as easy as "view source" is for html pages. Require all extensions to use nicely formatted code with no minimalized javascript/css. If you could look at the code, then for a lot of developers it would be easy to check if it looks reasonable or it looks like it sends browsing data to a server.

jakub_g 3y ago
There's an... extension for that :) "Chrome extension source viewer" aka CRX Viewer https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-source-v/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... Alternatively: https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/ https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/
- pcthrowaway 3y ago
  Yes, but how do we know it's doing what it claims? It can display the source code it wants you to think it has rather than its actual source code