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Chrome extension maker tells of pressure to sell out (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Chrome's disinterest in their own extension store is no accident. They want it to be wild west of privacy abusing actors so that can be the pretext of completely shutting it down. After all, only people tracking you through Chrome should be Google itself.