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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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geek_at
699 days ago
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.
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