I'm really troubled by the way that the author of this article nonchalantly describes wildly unethical means of monetising a browser extension, like cryptocurrency mining, search hijacking, and remote web proxying -- often even mentioning that they've tried these methods (yikes), or discussing how profitable they could be.
If you're writing an article about ways to make money, you don't list "robbery" or "kidnapping" as serious options. If you're writing an article about monetising software, you don't list techniques which abuse your users' trust (and which the vendor has banned) as options there, either.
If you're writing an article about ways to make money, you don't list "robbery" or "kidnapping" as serious options. If you're writing an article about monetising software, you don't list techniques which abuse your users' trust (and which the vendor has banned) as options there, either.