Peer review is the ultimate system here. Agreed so much.
Whats just so frigging sad is that Google rewrote the rules of extensions to require very static capabilities- they broke all the user scripting systems & broke so many interesting systems- because they said they want to secure the users. But the oversight & review has never been that great.
And ultimately, they are just not able to function as both an app store and a critical in depth reviewer. The roles conflict. They can't both make available and tell the truth. It's really the role of peers to really help surface & explain the depths of what extensions do.
Whats just so frigging sad is that Google rewrote the rules of extensions to require very static capabilities- they broke all the user scripting systems & broke so many interesting systems- because they said they want to secure the users. But the oversight & review has never been that great.
And ultimately, they are just not able to function as both an app store and a critical in depth reviewer. The roles conflict. They can't both make available and tell the truth. It's really the role of peers to really help surface & explain the depths of what extensions do.