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Several of the extensions you recommended at the end (Adblock Plus, The Great Suspender, LastPass) are widely considered to be compromised

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I haven't heard anything about the issues with AdBlock Plus outside places like this, and I have no idea what you've heard about LastPass. I don't know what The Great Suspender is.

You might want to expand on the problems in case this isn't a fluke.

Adblock Plus takes bribes to unblock ads: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Great suspender contains malware: https://dafoster.net/articles/2021/01/20/i-no-longer-trust-t...

LastPass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues

Ack, thanks. I've removed the entire paragraph.

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