[throwaway743950]

It's unfortunate that chrome extensions are major security liabilities.

[password4321]

such as "EditThisCookie", still going strong though back in 2021 per https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/jcvutb/the_cooki...

> the Chrome store version is 1.6.3 and was changed November 2020 (same time a lot of other addons were hijacked / sold to malicious authors). The github version is 1.5.0 from 2018!

I personally had left "ModHeader" installed when I read Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37772829 1 year ago.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27657617/how-to-disable-...

[seanwilson]

My tip for this is to install web dev extensions in a new Chrome profile, that way the extensions are completely isolated from your regular browsing. Or even install extensions in Chrome Canary or Chrome Beta which run alongside regular Chrome so there's even more distance from your email, banking etc. stuff.

[yen223]

Yeah, as a web developer you're better off learning all the things plain old Chrome DevTools can do

[chrisweekly]

"plain old" devtools is really, really powerful in the hands of an expert user.