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Is this project still under original ownership? #497

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brundonsmith opened this issue Mar 18, 2018 · 3 comments
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Is this project still under original ownership? #497

brundonsmith opened this issue Mar 18, 2018 · 3 comments

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@brundonsmith
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brundonsmith commented Mar 18, 2018

I recently read this article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firms-buy-popular-chrome-extensions-to-inject-malware-ads/

tl;dr moderately-popular browser extensions are sometimes bought up by companies that want to use them as backdoors to inject anything from ads to malware into users' pages. Given that this one is moderately-but-not-immenseley popular and stylebot.me is no longer online, it seems like a potential target of this sort of thing.

Is there a way to verify that the source is still what's reflected on GitHub, or does the author want to weigh in and verify the extension's proper ownership?

@brundonsmith
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For those curious, I was able to find the installed extension under C:\Users<MY-USER>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data<CHROME-PROFILE>\Extensions\oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha\2.2_0

I then checked out the github copy, then copied and pasted all of the contents of the installation directory into the local repo, and used git diff to compare the two. The only differences were in manifest.json and some .png files, so I think we're safe at least for now. It would still be good to hear from the author, though, for future purposes.

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Lohoris commented Nov 16, 2018

I assume it has just been abandoned, then.

@ankit
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ankit commented Jul 11, 2020

yes, i still own the extension and will never sell it, it is opensource. I am finally updating the extension to fix all the bugs and maintain it

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