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		liquidpele on June 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store What’s the point of asking for source if you do t use that to build it for the store yourself? People could just submit modified source right?

palant on June 1, 2023 [–]

Back when I reviewed add-ons for Mozilla Add-ons, I did in fact verify that the source code produced the same build result as the extension submitted. Was tricky occasionally but usually worked well.

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