[Chirael]

Yes, this - absolutely. Every extension you install is another potential risk/attack vector. Consider the sources carefully and run the least number of extensions possible. Each one potentially has control of your browser, so choose accordingly.

[nine_k]

Lately I ended up running much fewer extensions than I used to, and actually looking at their source first.

I think the only closed-source extension I run is lastpass, and I'm evaluating open-source alternatives.

How do people who cannot read code even cope, I don't know.

[squidofbits]

+1 for bitwarden. Of all the things not to trust closed source software with, passwords are the main one

[esperent]

I signed up for LastPass a couple of weeks ago, and they started sending me spammy emails every single day. I went into account settings and disabled the emails, and they kept coming. I opened a support thread on their forum, linking many other similar threads going back several years, and saying that they have to fix this under GDPR... Silence.

I deleted my account and switched to BitDefender. Still getting the LastPass emails though, whenever I check my spam folder.

Also, LastPass slowed my Android phone a lot. BitDefender doesn't seem to do that.

In short, my recommendation is: stay the hell away from LastPass. They can't even handle an email system, I don't trust them at all to handle my passwords.

[skinkestek]

> Also, LastPass slowed my Android phone a lot.

Their Windows application was also painfully slow.

I paid them for years but I no longer trust them, it seems to me they are incompetent as an organization even if the people who work there might or might not be smart.

[kwanbix]

You meant to say bitwarden? Afaik Bitdefender Is an Antivirus.

[esperent]

Oops, yes. Thanks.

[lovelyviking]

Can you list those open source extensions you run? I think this could help a lot to cope ..