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by ivanjermakov 699 days ago
1. Wait for an extension to become popular

2. Sell it to a company with malicious intentions

3. Get ad/spy/malware in your browser

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that happened to me. I installed a plugin that would parse all pages for email addresses and store them for later reference. A few months later i started to see strange ads on pages that shouldn't have ads.