Chrome’s secretly installed extensions

Luca found a hidden Chrome extension that is installed by default in Chrome and most Chromium derivatives. Surma and Jake dig into what this extensions does and how reasonable it is to get angry about it.
Resources:
Luca’s original tweet thread The extension’s source code Discussion on blink-dev The original PR that introduced the extension Brendan Eich’s response Brave PR disabling the extension

[@sodomousprime]

The band is back together, I am so happy that I found this.

[@Stoney_Eagle]

Am I seeing this correct?! 😱 Glad you 2 are doing things together again 😊

[@MaxCoplan]

You should have called this podcast HTTP 301

[@socialcheese]

Maybe HTTP 418

[@mikescholz6429]

How did you steal that background from my 3rd grade class photos?

[@jakearchibald]

hah! That's not far from the truth. It was a photo booth they had at an internal Shopify event.