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This has been a great extension but i'm always nervous about Chrome extensions and their seemingly global access to everything and some dev's willingness to sell to malware devs.

It would be interesting if Chrome let you point an extension to a github repo (and tag or commit hash) and pull source from there.

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You can do this by enabling developer mode in chrome://extensions, which lets you install from a directory.

You lose automatic updates though.

yeah the permissions and ecosystem are scary. I have a very small extension (1000-ish users), and even I get "monetization opportunity for your extension" emails maybe... every other week?

Sometimes I feel like the only reason it's not a platform-breaking problem is that most extension devs make enough money from their day job to not care about a quick buck.

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