Has been a while since I updated my collection of Chrome extension manifests. Just uploaded another snapshot: https://codeberg.org/palant/chrome-extension-manifests-dataset Since my last snapshot (January 2025) there has been an outright explosion of extension numbers. With 250k it’s now almost twice as many extension manifests despite no changes on my end. The Chrome Web Store spammers have been very busy… There have been reports about hundreds of “misleading” VPN extensions in CWS (as in: tricking you into installing, then likely spying on you). But that’s really only the tip of the iceberg, chances of randomly finding a non-malicious Chrome extension appear rather slim at the moment.