hoverzoom VS flask-discord-interactions

I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).

> Manifest V3 will stop this by limiting what Google describes "remotely hosted code." All updates, even to benign things like a filtering list, will need to happen through full extension updates through the Chrome Web Store. They will all be subject to Chrome Web Store reviews process, and that comes with a significant time delay.

So the author can't think of any other reason for this change other than to "slow down ad blocker updates"

Well how about stuff like this: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

Where an extension dev details offers to "monetize" his app and basically perform a bait and switch and make it malicious.

These type of offers are actually quite common. See this[0] and the discussion[1]. I try to stick with only the most popular of extensions in the hope that any malicious changes would be widespread news, but it is still a gamble.

[0] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680

As a maintainer of a semi-popular chrome extension[1], I receive so many buy-out offers that I started publicly collecting them[2] for everyone to see.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc...

[2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

It works in places that Imagus had stopped working. He also has a Github page for it: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/

You will find this github discussion very interesting https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

I think this is a pretty key point. Think of all of the unscrupulous ways that browser extensions can be monetized. Imagine someone offering money to a Discord bot developer to give them statistics on which games are discussed most frequently in channels that the bot operates in.

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670#discussioncomment-802497

I don't want to distract from what's happening here, but I built a slash command bot using flask-discord-interactions a few months back. It definitely made my life easier. I'm sure there's others out there.