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I hadn't looked at it for a while, so I just did so.

You're right...it won't let me update it now without a lot of justifications on their privacy tab. However, it is still published. The status is "Status: Published - unlisted", so I can't search for it, but I can go direct to the store url for it.

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Yeah, that matches up with what I've seen. They've at least been decent enough not to kick people off the store, but I don't think it's possible to just have them sign / publish something unlisted these days without a good deal of policy writing and justifications.

Yet the large actors still publish malicious updates to extensions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They have this "private" feature now where you have to list the email addresses of people that are allowed to use the extension. I don't see why that couldn't be coupled with "no review required", so long as the list is relatively short. But, yeah, likely will never happen.

Fortunately for me, I can re-do my extension to use the JS postMessage api which won't require hardly any permissions, and thus, not much to review.

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