Slightly off-topic: Is there a large marketplace site for Chrome extensions that are, and are NOT in the official Chrome store? Something better/easier than just trying to search through GitHub? If not, that'd be a brilliant site to spin up while all this is happening more and more. Just say "screw it" to the crazy Chrome store policies, and build something that ends up being even more "official" than theirs, that everyone uses. Or is there a reason this hasn't been done? From my understanding Chrome can't stop any local extension from being added, right?
I'm not sure, but Chrome extensions outside of the Chrome Web Store need to be side loaded to install so this creates friction and you'd miss out on the organic traffic from being in the Chrome Web Store.
That's fair, but in theory if this site was closely monitored for adware plugins, and it become popular enough, then that could be enough to mitigate traffic from the official Chrome store to this one.
