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Google's Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies (theregister.co.uk)
9 points by Dotnaught on Oct 26, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion here as I'll attempt to defend Google, but they have recently added a bug bounty program for extensions that violate user privacy:

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/expanding-bug-bounti...

I recently received a nice bounty for reporting a VPN extension, with nasty privacy violation, using this program. I understand that El Reg will get their clickbait here, but the situation isn't nearly as bad as described.




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