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> Browser extensions must be open-source. You download the source when you install the extension. It's a zip file. You can unzip it and examine it yourself. Ev
by gabrielsroka 3y ago
> Browser extensions must be open-source.
You download the source when you install the extension. It's a zip file. You can unzip it and examine it yourself. Even if the developer provides a GitHub repo, how do you know it's the same as the version in the extension store?
Maybe there's a server component too, but again how would you know that the source provided is what's actually running on the server?
- kwar13 3y agoExactly. You can also look at the source code without installing it. I decided to check this out a couple weeks ago: https://kaveh.page/snippets/chrome-extensions-source-code https://kaveh.page/snippets/chrome-extensions-source-code