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by CaveTech 4087 days ago
Tons of extensions serve the purpose of modifying actual pages to change/modify/add content. When users have many extensions, it's near impossible to determine which one is the bad actor without a lot of leg work. But people do figure it out and spread the news exactly how you describe. The problem is most people don't read the reviews and most casual internet users have no idea what's wrong if the functionality is added after the fact.