Re:Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
by pachydermic on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:18AM
(#6668969)
Man, I don't know. That's not open source - they don't seem to intend for you to easily be able to see and understand the code. There's less peer review that way.
They're also an ad (analytics?) company. I just don't trust them.
Second way, and probably the best, would be to go to its store page, and in the URL will be the extension ID; for Ghostery, it's "mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij". Now, just find that in your Chrome installation directory, e.g. for Win7 the extension would be located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij\.
The last way would be to intercept or otherwise directly down the .crx file (curl, wget, etc.), which is just a compressed zip archive. You can do the same for FF extensions as well, those .xpi files are just zip files.