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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't (vitonsky.net)

submitted 1 year ago by vitonsky to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it possible to decompile or analyze an extension to see if new code has been added?

I only have 4 extensions, all of them are recommended by Firefox, and come with a tag that says "Firefox only recommends extensions that meet our standards for security and performance". Now I'm wondering what those standards are; and whether plugins that have already 'met' them, are re-assessed when updated or altered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From what I've experienced with my extension, every update has to go through a review process. Firefox is pretty fast, chrome takes a few days and edge takes a while (opera hasn't finished reviewing my first version, so I stopped trying with them).

The only time I failed a review was early on when my build script choked and I submitted an empty file to Chrome (whoops). So I can't really tell how good those reviews are, but I'm not planning on testing them. I just know that they exist

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