Multiple things: 1) extensions are overly permissive, 2) so many of them are sold to shady entities without peep from the developer, and 3) it's never been easier to generate my own tooling.

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bjord 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

brutal. I just typed out a much longer response and lost it when my time wasting extension saw the url change (time for a text area cache extension?)

you might find this useful: https://github.com/classvsoftware/under-new-management

my port (and now fork): https://github.com/maxtheaxe/under-new-management-firefox

they currently (PRs are welcome!) only check listing info. mine doesn't route requests through an external (non addon store) server.

a couple PRs are overdue on mine due to linting making the diffs impossible. I'll get to it. (see the wxt-migration branch)

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sgc 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I just download the extension file, check it out, and install it locally. No worries about future updates until something breaks (doesn't tend to happen).

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bjord 2 days ago | parent [-]

at least on firefox, you can also just disallow automatic updates

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sgc 2 days ago | parent [-]

I want to see the source, and I don't want to worry about future browser changes messing with my settings..

	▲	bjord a day ago \| parent [-]
		fair enough. I'll add that one fantastic use I've found for LLMs is quickly checking the source of a given addon (though obviously this is no replacement for a real audit or finely-grained permissions). I'd be doing this type of thing a lot more if browsers didn't make it difficult to load unpacked addons (in which case I could be modifying things I didn't like on the fly).