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Re:The Most Dangerous Code in the Web Browser by jimmaswell on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:37PM (#10001331)
Firefox extensions are human-reviewed. Unfortunately Chrome's aren't unless their automated system detects something so for Chrome these concerns are more valid.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/AMO/Policy/Revie...

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Re:The Most Dangerous Code in the Web Browser by TheCowboy on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:54PM (#10001566)
This may be outdated, and Google might have improved the process, but the problem I found is that trying to report the extension didn't seem to have any effect.

I had an experience awhile ago where I found a Chrome extension that was inserting its own ads among Google search results. It was subtle enough that most people probably would never notice it happening, inserting an ad in a place where you would expect Google display an ad in results.

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