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And the ones that are not will probably get bought out at some point and become malware as well.

The only extension I trust enough to install on any browser is uBlock Origin.

I have published an extension [1] that has 100k+ users and I've probably received hundreds of emails over the years asking me to sell out in one way or another. It's honestly relentless. For that reason I also only trust uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and my own extensions.

I'd also note that all this spam is via the public email address you're forced to add to your extension listing by Google. I don't think I've ever had a single legitimate email sent to it. So yeh, thanks Google.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect...

Just to say thanks for this extension, and keeping Reddit usable (at least for me).

Respect for not selling out. I have to admit though... If I had a browser extension and someone suddenly offered me a million dollars for it, I think I would take it.

This realization made me distrust any system where it is even possible to sell out. In order for a system to be trustworthy, it must be impossible for this sort of exploitation to ever occur, no matter how much money they put on the table.

Can confirm this, also get a lot of sell-requests for my 10k+ user extension via the public mail that I have to add on the Chrome Web Store.

Thank you so much for making and maintaining this extension.

Know that you are truly appreciated by many.

Just curious how much does it sell? It gives an idea about how much my personal data is worth

I was just having a quick search and the only email I can find that offered a price range up front was for $0.1-0.4 per user, and that was from 2023. So I assume up to a dollar per user these days?

I imagine it must be very tempting to take that bag while old reddit is still usable.

Thank you for not doing so.

No, fortunately in my case it's not tempting at all.

It's easy to see how many people in less advantaged positions would end up selling out, though.

> The only extension I trust enough to install on any browser is uBlock Origin.

Note however that the origin of uBlock Origin is that the developer Raymond Hill transferred control of the original uBlock project to someone who turned out not to be trustworthy, and thus Hill had to fork it later.

I never transferred the extension in the Chrome store. The Chrome store extension has always been the one from the repository I control, and I've had full control of it since when I created it back in June 2014.

Thank you for your work!

Dude man, great respect for your work.

That's the only extension I have installed too!

I used to have tree-style tab, but now firefox has got native support for vertical tabs so I don't need to install anything extra.

Installing new extensions is sometimes appealing, but the risk is just too high.

I often make the argument that uBlock Origin is so essential that it should be built into the browsers instead of being a separate extension. The restrictions imposed by manifest v3 are good, it's just that uBlock Origin is special enough that it should be able to bypass them.

Unfortunately, the huge conflicts of interest make this unrealistic. Can't trust developers funded by ad money to develop an ad blocker.

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