[Dylan16807]

> I guess you don't remember the "Mr.Robot" incident[1] that we were not suppose to know about and many did not consent?

That was not malware. I will explain this a thousand times if I have to. If you didn't manually configure its secret setting, it did literally nothing.

[FTLJohnson]

So, we can install software on people's computers and take up space on their hard drives without their permission now and it's not considered malicious? OK!

[folkrav]

Malware has a definition[1] :

> Malicious computer software that interferes with normal computer functions or sends personal data about the user to unauthorized parties over the Internet.

Taking up a couple KBs of space to do nothing is not even comparable. From a moral standpoint, was it okay from them to install that extension on people's computers? No. Was it malware? No.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+malware&t=h_&ia=definition