Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads
I’m baffled Google is so uninterested in making a serious effort in combating this practice, in their own add-on store no less. The suggestions outlined by this developer seems like a good start, and are not too hard to enforce.
Google don’t care. Hell they probably welcome it since a lot of the companies are probably using Google tools like Adsense anyway.
If they start replacing other ads not from Adsense with Google derived ads, so much the better for Google.
Chrome’s disinterest in their own extension store is no accident. They want it to be wild west of privacy abusing actors so that can be the pretext of completely shutting it down. After all, only people tracking you through Chrome should be Google itself.