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Samirla / xmlview

Powerful XML viewer for Google Chrome and Safari
MIT License
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Monetization? #62

Closed tsimmons closed 7 years ago

tsimmons commented 7 years ago

Just saw the latest commit. Can you please transparently explain what the deal was? Thanks.

sergeche commented 7 years ago

A company suggested to add a script which should ”silently” add some context ads when used searches some goods. In practice, it was implemented so badly and tried to inject script on every page user visits (including localhost) which caused lots of sudden errors in DevTools console.

I had no intention to spy on someone or steal sensitive data, just tried to make some profit from existing extension, as company suggested :)

tsimmons commented 7 years ago

Gotcha. Thanks for your transparency.