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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
(vitonsky.net)
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this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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You can open/extract extensions (at least Firefox ones) as zip files, they'll contain the code and assets used by the extension.
They average person won't know what they're looking at.