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How big of a risk are popular Chrome extensions?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20265394 views
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I'm about to switch to Chromium and I installed a couple of extensions. Each time I installed an extension I was notified of which data the extension has access to, e.g.: I do understand that access to that data is necessary for the extension to work, yet I'm a bit worried that such an extension mi…

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You are forgetting the following: The more popular an extension is, the smaller is the chance of nobody noticing that the add-on does something harmful. In contrast to that, if you install some extension that nobody else has used before, you risk mo…

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