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>the story of browser extensions... In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones. A redirect extension is ripe for the usual
by Grimburger 3y ago
>the story of browser extensions...
In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones.
A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.
- civilitty 3y agoThey’re simple enough that you can fork an open source extension and review the source with relative ease, freezing it. I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2
- redman25 3y agoWho's got time for to review every open source project they use, thousands of lines of code though?
- Grimburger 3y agoThis is a fair call and something I should really do with the small enough ones. It's the auto-update behaviour of browsers that should probably be criticised here, rather than having general distrust of all extension authors.