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It's now clear that I need some sort of semi-automated system to periodically review the list of installed extensions against a database of known-malicious IDs. I'm not going to manually go through a list of more than 100 extensions. We need something like HaveIBeenPwned, is there anything like that already?

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Seems like a job for the Chrome team, not the user community.

Note: I am the author of this article.

Yes, Chrome uses Safe Browsing to flag malicious extensions. But they seem to use it very sparingly for some reason.

Or you could just not use the extensions.

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