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by armchairhacker 1255 days ago
tbh I get your point but a lot of scams work because people don't realize. It's better to present the worst case and get people who don't read the fine print to uninstall your harmless extension, than not and have those same people install malicious extensions because "there's no way it can see my browser history, all it does is add an overlay to the current tab!"

Web3 services like MetaMask are primary examples which should have these big warnings, because crypto is rife with scams where someone does something (e.g. open an AirDrop, save their seed phrase in Google Drive) which gives an attacker access to their account without realizing. I don't doubt MetaMask is legit, but you want people to be diligent and understand that whenever they hook up one of these apps to their wallet they are giving a lot of potential for it to be compromised, so maybe be careful and honestly maybe use less of them.