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> Imagine it this way: The local supermarket is selling a product which claims to be food but actually contains a highly toxic poison

Basically anything on sale if had in the wrong dose. Example: a can of a sugary drink is OK, drink 6 of them per day and it's going to be bad for your health.

Let's try a different metaphor.

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Okay. How about buying something that was legitimately food when you bought it, but updates to poison - and there's really no choice about allowing updates, since previously safe foodstuffs can become poison if left as purchased - in your cupboard?

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

Why would it be sarcastic? Malware authors buy legitimate extensions for mountains of cash and then stick spyware in them. Users have no idea their previously good and trusted extension is now malware.

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