Stylebot: Is this project still under original ownership?
I recently read this article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firms-buy-popular-chrome-extensions-to-inject-malware-ads/
tl;dr moderately-popular browser extensions are sometimes bought up by companies that want to use them as backdoors to inject anything from ads to malware into users' pages. Given that this one is moderately-but-not-immenseley popular and stylebot.me is no longer online, it seems like a potential target of this sort of thing.
Is there a way to verify that the source is still what's reflected on GitHub, or does the author want to weigh in and verify the extension's proper ownership?
brundonsmith
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For those curious, I was able to find the installed extension under C:\Users\
I then checked out the github copy, then copied and pasted all of the contents of the installation directory into the local repo, and used git diff to compare the two. The only differences were in manifest.json and some .png files, so I think we're safe at least for now. It would still be good to hear from the author, though, for future purposes.
brundonsmith
on 18 Mar 2018
I assume it has just been abandoned, then.
Lohoris
on 16 Nov 2018
yes, i still own the extension and will never sell it, it is opensource. I am finally updating the extension to fix all the bugs and maintain it
ankit
on 11 Jul 2020
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For those curious, I was able to find the installed extension under C:\Users\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\\Extensions\oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha2.2_0
I then checked out the github copy, then copied and pasted all of the contents of the installation directory into the local repo, and used git diff to compare the two. The only differences were in manifest.json and some .png files, so I think we're safe at least for now. It would still be good to hear from the author, though, for future purposes.