I've developed a few browser extensions, and every week I receive numerous emails with "revenue offer". Some experienced developers know that offers like these will inject malware into the browsers of your users, but scammers who make these offers will not tell you about it. They offer "integrations" that don't look so suspicious. Imagine how many developers have accepted these offers. Then look at the number of extensions in your browser and think about how much risk there is that you have an extension with malware.
I wonder how easy it would be to make an extension and fake it’s popularity? Make make it intentionally broken or something, so users immediately uninstall it too.
Sounds like an easy $10k, assuming the scammers would actually pay.
I wonder how easy it would be to make an extension and fake it’s popularity? Make make it intentionally broken or something, so users immediately uninstall it too.
Sounds like an easy $10k, assuming the scammers would actually pay.