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I have a relatively popular novelty extension and I get approached by ad companies to buy/monetize it regularly. I refuse, because I despise advertising and I don't need the money. But I suspect I am in the minority and that many extension owners probably just decide it is easier to sell it and not think about it.
How much did they offer?
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I switched my chrome extension to a paid model (one off payments). Most the offers from these shady people, work out as approximately 1 year worth of sales.
Who pays for extensions? Like, honest question.
I would be surprised if extensions that "read and change content on all websites you visit" haven't yet been used in some wide-scale account/identity compromise without making much noise.
It appears to be an easy way to at least weaken this practice: Why doesn't chrome prompt it's user / demands a confirmation of permissions when an extention changes ownership, before updating it again? It could at least impact the rentability of this buying up of extentions, but definitely help alert users of such things
I have a relatively popular novelty extension and I get approached by ad companies to buy/monetize it regularly. I refuse, because I despise advertising and I don't need the money. But I suspect I am in the minority and that many extension owners probably just decide it is easier to sell it and not think about it.
How much did they offer?
Not even Firefox manually review extensions anymore. Sad, happened twice for me (one was a cryptominer) so now I have like 2 extensions installed.
Not true. Extensions are still subject to manual review, however they are permitted to be posted publically as soon as they pass a suite of automated checks.
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Host blocking at the OS level. No need for extensions.
Sometimes you need to temporary disable filters or edit them. How do you manage that? Is it user-friendly?