[3abiton]

> At this point, I am the old lady who is driving to a Target to buy gift cards and give them to Jared, who is the Amazon Customer Support specialist with a suspiciously heavy Indian accent, waiting on the phone.

It happens to all of us. I always tend to make sure any extension has the sources available (unless requested by work/client), but nowadays with open source supply chain attack, it's just another breakable wall. Even on linux, some long time ago, I caught a trojan (luckily to the extent of my knowledge, it didn't affect anything besides running a crypto mining on my m3 laptop)., disguised as systemd, that was spreading through kodi extensions.

[cwel]

Running Asahi? or otherwise, How did a trojan slip through disguised as an init system which does not exist on darwin. (this is all assuming by "my m3 laptop" you are referring to apple silicon.. so i could be way off base)

[3abiton]

I see the confusion. My fault. Before the Mac M3, intel briefly used to have the intel core m3 cpu lineup. Fanless, and very energy efficient for the time (~2017).

[cwel]

Ah, yeah I should have figured when you referred to the event happening a long time ago that it wasn't the Applearm. nonetheless, i agree with the sentiment.. browser extension ecosystem is rife with questionablesoft