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SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Do We Know to Trust an Extension?

How do we know to trust an extension? It's a good question. There's really no one single way of doing it, so personally, all the extensions that I actively maintain, they're all open source. Pay attention to what the permission warning messages are telling you because that's really the last sign of defense.

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