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by rektide 1120 days ago
Peer review is the ultimate system here. Agreed so much.

Whats just so frigging sad is that Google rewrote the rules of extensions to require very static capabilities- they broke all the user scripting systems & broke so many interesting systems- because they said they want to secure the users. But the oversight & review has never been that great.

And ultimately, they are just not able to function as both an app store and a critical in depth reviewer. The roles conflict. They can't both make available and tell the truth. It's really the role of peers to really help surface & explain the depths of what extensions do.