Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="griimnak" data-source="post: 441837" data-attributes="member: 35695">Well to start the 1,000+ others you speak of are closed source (unless they say otherwise).Alot of them are shadily developed by indian devs who probably write worst code than me, and could have malicious intentions.This is especially scary with a New-Tab extension because the nature of such extension replaces your new-tab screen and allows background scripts to run on ALL PAGES; Just like my daemon.js.Here's some articles of allegedly malicious extensions :<a href="https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/malicious-chrome-extensions-found-chrome-web-store-form-droidclub-botnet/" target="_blank">https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/malicious-chrome-extensions-found-chrome-web-store-form-droidclub-botnet/</a><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/malicious-chrome-extensions-infect-more-than-100000-users-again/" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/malicious-chrome-extensions-infect-more-than-100000-users-again/</a>Secondly, my new-tab is way more lightweight than others offered. I know this just because the fact that I'm writing all my CSS and JS from scratch. No dependencies whatsoever.Lastly, I plan to have alot of customization options that will probably make this extension stand out compared to others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="griimnak, post: 441837, member: 35695"] Well to start the 1,000+ others you speak of are closed source (unless they say otherwise). Alot of them are shadily developed by indian devs who probably write worst code than me, and could have malicious intentions. This is especially scary with a New-Tab extension because the nature of such extension replaces your new-tab screen and allows background scripts to run on ALL PAGES; Just like my daemon.js. Here's some articles of allegedly malicious extensions : [URL]https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/malicious-chrome-extensions-found-chrome-web-store-form-droidclub-botnet/[/URL] [URL]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/malicious-chrome-extensions-infect-more-than-100000-users-again/[/URL] Secondly, my new-tab is way more lightweight than others offered. I know this just because the fact that I'm writing all my CSS and JS from scratch. No dependencies whatsoever. Lastly, I plan to have alot of customization options that will probably make this extension stand out compared to others. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Reply to thread

Connect with us

Newest members