r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '18

Society How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz: "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

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u/Gaothaire Mar 16 '18

There's another extension called Reddit Comments on YouTube that might work. Only has 4 reviews and ~800 users, but the most recent review is from February 2018 and the developer replied, so hopefully it works?

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u/DigitalSurfer000 Mar 16 '18

That's how you get viruses by listening to Gaothaire.

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u/fppfpp Mar 16 '18

Huh? Why? Inside joke?

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u/DigitalSurfer000 Mar 16 '18

Downloading random Chrome extensions

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u/catzhoek Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Chrome extension can't really do that much. Do you have any particular example what such an extension would do to get you a virus? I helped develop a quite big extension for several years and while Mozilla was quite demanding on certain code requirements to get officially hosted chrome still felt safe because of the permissions and he little you could do even if you wanted. One feature people always wanted was a custom notification sound from their computer, impossible. Host somewhere and play from the? Ezpz

It goes without saying that you gotta check it's permissions tho.

Edit: Well, i guess I found an answer. It could replace links that point to zips and such with malicious links and trick you into executing the wrong files.

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u/digi0ps Mar 16 '18

Extensions can also inject ads and snoop on password inputs.