The level of low effort negativity on HN these days is just exhausting. Chrome has a stellar track record on security all the way back to the launch, both on an engineering and product level. Why would it be surprising that they're continuing with that?

Malicious extensions are probably the biggest existential threat to the web as a platform. If browser regain the reputation for being insecure that they deservedly had 15 years ago, more and more serious business will move into mobile app walled gardens. This has to be solved.

But rather than accept the simple explanation, we get these inane conspiracy theories on what the true motivation is. No, it's not about ad blockers because the subject of this blog post is not a feature that ad blockers would use. And the same for the half dozen alternative explanations.

Seriously, what is wrong with you people? Can't you at least save the high school level cynicism for situations where an assumption of malice makes some sense?