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It can, until the extension developer receives a tempting offer for it, as has happened countless times

• littlestymaar 3y ago
  Fork the extension and use your own then.
  • Dylan16807 3y ago
    ...which is a lot more work than "one Chrome extension away".
  • vGPU 3y ago
    And you’re going to spend the time reviewing every single commit to make sure the dev didn’t sell out without telling anyone? Or risk running a potentially outdated and vulnerable extension?
    • tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
      And then you’ve gotta wake up in the morning and put your shoes on! What’s with the argumentative tone? Do you think that the replier doesn’t know this?
      • vGPU 3y ago
        The obvious point being that the “fork your own code and write your own kernel” attitude is simply unworkable for 99.999% of the population. If we had to waste that much time re-inventing the loaf of bread, and then making sure that my neighbors didn’t decide to throw some raisins in my loaf, that we never get around to figuring out the next best thing: slicing it.
        • flangola7 3y ago
          The argument you're making (you can't trust software whose you code you haven't studied) applies to every software package ever made.
          • vGPU 3y ago
            Exactly. So we have to choose: trust everything reasonably mainstream with the hope that someone is watching it, or stop functioning.