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How to check any browser extension in two minutes: the prompts to run before you trust it
A trustworthy browser extension can turn dangerous months after you install it, without a new version or an update prompt. The Great Suspender, Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender, and a 2023 cluster with 75 million installs all followed the same pattern: sold or exploited through a remote server that could change what the extension does at any time. This post gives you three prompts to run in any AI assistant that catch the pattern before it catches you.