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charcircuit ◴[] No.44348644[source]
This is just going to normalize adware / phishing. These front ends can show ads or ask for users personal information.

Redirecting people from trusted sources to these other sites is very risky and opens up opportunities for malicous people to exploit this. That's not even considering this extension is compromised or purchased and these dangerous permissions that it has are used against you.

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1. b00ty4breakfast ◴[] No.44351760[source]
I reckon one of these front ends serving ads will have trouble maintaining a user base large enough to justify the effort of serving ads