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matheusmoreiratoday at 12:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

And the ones that are not will probably get bought out at some point and become malware as well.

The only extension I trust enough to install on any browser is uBlock Origin.


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mcjiggerlogtoday at 12:19 PM

I have published an extension [1] that has 100k+ users and I've probably received hundreds of emails over the years asking me to sell out in one way or another. It's honestly relentless. For that reason I also only trust uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and my own extensions.

I'd also note that all this spam is via the public email address you're forced to add to your extension listing by Google. I don't think I've ever had a single legitimate email sent to it. So yeh, thanks Google.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect...

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stevekemptoday at 1:47 PM

That's the only extension I have installed too!

I used to have tree-style tab, but now firefox has got native support for vertical tabs so I don't need to install anything extra.

Installing new extensions is sometimes appealing, but the risk is just too high.

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lapcattoday at 1:58 PM

> The only extension I trust enough to install on any browser is uBlock Origin.

Note however that the origin of uBlock Origin is that the developer Raymond Hill transferred control of the original uBlock project to someone who turned out not to be trustworthy, and thus Hill had to fork it later.