“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”
Anashkin’s experience appears to be fairly common. Developers have discussed these solicitations in online forums and several have written blog posts about selling extensions or partnership offers.
The extension in question is Hover Zoom+ for those who don’t want to click the link
What does it do? Like a magnifier for your mouse?
If I remember correctly it zooms in images that you point at (quicker than opening the image in a new tab). I’ve been using Imagus for that.
Ahh. Is imagus next? But this Dev seem legit. Might use his to be safe now.