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> What hope does any other store then have to create a malware free web store if even Google can't?

I think you're giving Google too much credit here. For years nearly every single extension, no matter how targeted the purpose, has told me "This extension will have access to all your data on all your web pages". It is such a no brainer to do a little better than that but they tolerated it for years.

In a few cases I looked into why developers requested that kind of permissions and the answer was that Chrome permissions weren't designed well enough to allow narrower permissions. So Google has no excuses here. They control the browser and the store.

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Just because they had a more lax approach in the past doesn't mean they aren't working hard to regain control now. And either way, none of that addresses the issue where expanding control would only make the malware issue worse, not better.