But even then, a few developers have managed to publish malicious and misleading extensions on the platform. To address this issue, Google has made some policy changes in the past to make extensions more secure.
However, despite the company’s efforts, a few developers still manage to publish malicious extensions to exploit Google Chrome users. In order to ensure that the Chrome Web Store is free from abuse, Google has an abuse system and a review team set in place that constantly monitors new extensions submitted to the platform.