Did I Vet You Before? Assessing the Chrome Web Store Vetting Process through Browser Extension Similarity

arXiv:2406.00374v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Web browsers, particularly Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, have grown in popularity over the past decade, with browser extensions becoming an integral part of their ecosystem. These extensions can customize and enhance the user experience, providing functionality that ranges from ad blockers to, more recently, AI assistants. Given the ever-increasing importance of web browsers, distribution marketplaces for extensions play a key role in keeping users safe by vetting submissions that display abusive or malicious …

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