There are still several of them on the Web Store that they have not (and very likely, will not) take action against. Those extensions were dinged because they were rewriting links and what not without the user knowing. There are others that still pop up new windows, write ads into pages, etc. that Google apparently feels are perfectly cool.
Likewise, their response is slow and only applies to extensions that are loaded through the Web Store. You can also install them through sideloading from your own site or application installers (think like those stupid ad bars that get pinned into IE from unscrupulous characters). This sort of behavior is becoming a lot more prevalent, and they’re doing precious little to prevent it unfortunately. They have to walk a fine line between protecting their users and not putting arduous restrictions in place, so I still think a project like this is necessary (at least right now).
Isn’t this a job for Mozilla and Google? We saw Google take action yesterday when it removed two extensions that had been hijacked to serve malware.
Meta: I down voted as low quality. While this project seems cool, there is currently no code in either repositories and the website doesn’t work.
There are still several of them on the Web Store that they have not (and very likely, will not) take action against. Those extensions were dinged because they were rewriting links and what not without the user knowing. There are others that still pop up new windows, write ads into pages, etc. that Google apparently feels are perfectly cool.
Likewise, their response is slow and only applies to extensions that are loaded through the Web Store. You can also install them through sideloading from your own site or application installers (think like those stupid ad bars that get pinned into IE from unscrupulous characters). This sort of behavior is becoming a lot more prevalent, and they’re doing precious little to prevent it unfortunately. They have to walk a fine line between protecting their users and not putting arduous restrictions in place, so I still think a project like this is necessary (at least right now).